The country currently has nearly 65,000 petrol pumps, with public sector retailers owning 58,174. PSU retailers have plans to double this network and have already starting appointing dealers. Russia's Rosneft-backed Nayara Energy, formerly Essar Oil, has 5,244 petrol pumps and has plans to scale them up to more than 7,000 in 2-3 years. Royal Dutch Shell Plc has 151 outlets and is slated to add 150-200 more petrol pumps. BP had in 2016 received a license from the government to set up 3,500 petrol pumps in India. "This is a further development of Reliance and BP's longstanding partnership, which began in 2011 and expanded in 2017 including an agreement to seek options to work together to develop differentiated fuels and mobility businesses," it said. India is expected to be the fastest-growing fuel market in the world over the next 20 years, with the number of passenger cars in the country estimated to grow almost six-fold over the period.