GAIL (India) Ltd (GAIL.NS), the country's largest gas distributor, reported an almost 93% slump in quarterly profit on Monday, hit by lower gas sales due to supply disruptions.
The state-owned gas company's standalone profit tumbled to 2.46 billion rupees ($30.14 million) in the quarter ending Dec. 31, from 32.88 billion rupees a year earlier.
GAIL's revenue from operations jumped more than 37% to 353.80 billion rupees on price hikes to customers.
The company recorded a natural gas marketing loss of 860.2 million rupees against a profit of 17.50 billion rupees a year ago.
Profit before tax at the natural gas transmission segment more than halved to 4.26 billion rupees.
The state-owned firm is reeling from the impact of Russia-owned Gazprom Marketing and Trading's failure to deliver some liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargoes following western sanctions on Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine last year.
GMTS was a unit of Gazprom Germania, now called Sefe, but the parent abandoned the business last April after the western sanctions.
