After petrol prices were cut for the sixth consecutive day, the state-owned Oil Companies kept rates unchanged today in various state capitals of India. On previous day, prices of petrol were down in the range of 14 paisa to 18 paisa with Mumbai seeing highest cut compared to other metro cities. The status quo comes despite international crude oil prices rising on Wednesday as a supply disruption in Canada tightened the market and after U.S. officials told importers to stop buying Iranian crude from November. In nearly months time, state-owned OMCs like HPCL, IOCL and BPCL have either trim down petrol and diesel prices or maintained a status quo on them.