ONGC says paid no discount on crude oil sales to state refiners in Q3

An engineer of Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) works inside the Kalol oil field in the western Indian state of Gujarat September 12, 2009. REUTERS/Amit Dave/Files

MUMBAI (Reuters) - India's Oil and Natural Gas Corp paid no discount on crude oil sales to state refiners in the December quarter, Chairman D.K. Sarraf said on Thursday.

The state-run explorer gave a discount of 94.58 billion rupees ($1.38 billion) during the same period last year.

ONGC will report its December-quarter earnings later on Thursday.

($1 = 68.3800 Indian rupees)

(Reporting by Nidhi Verma; Writing by Promit Mukherjee; Editing by Biju Dwarakanath)