The company did not spell out specifics of the plan but indicated that fuel marketing is one of them.

The company is looking at "all options" to enter fuel retailing through partnerships with Indian oil companies, Nasser said.

Aramco and UAE's Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, commonly known as ADNOC, signed a deal on Monday which allows ADNOC to partner in the 1.2 million barrels crude oil refinery proposed in Western India.

(Reporting by Promit Mukherjee; Editing by Christian Schmollinger)