The government had last week issued bonds worth Rs 11,256.92 crore to three PSU oil marketing companies to compensate them for losses on selling petrol, diesel, domestic LPG and PDS kerosene in April-September 2007 period. For April-September losses, IOC got Rs 6,362.25 crore of oil bonds, BPCL Rs 2,539.13 crore and HPCL Rs 2,355.54 crore worth of bonds carrying coupon rate of 7.95% maturing in 2025. For the October-December quarter, the retailers got Rs 7,083 crore from upstream firms and the remaining of the Rs 21,264.6-crore loss on sale of petrol, diesel, LPG and kerosene was borne by IOC, BPCL and HPCL. The total loss on sale of the four fuels during April-December has been pegged at Rs 47,628 crore, of which the government compensated Rs 20,336.92 crore through bonds. For the full fiscal, the aggregate loss of IOC, BPCL and HPCL on fuel sales is being pegged at Rs 71,808 crore.