Chennai Petroleum Corporation Limited (CPCL), a group company of IndianOil, is one of the seven Indian Companies to crack Standard & Poor’s (S&P) Global Challengers List 2006. S&P has identified 300 mid-size companies from all over the world, showing the highest growth characteristics, along with dimensions encompassing intrinsic and extrinsic growth and are expected to emerge as challengers to the World’s leading blue chip companies. The attributes used to identify these companies are share price appreciation, sales growth, earnings growth, and employee growth. 2006 Clause of S&P Global Challengers has representations from 32 countries and 10 sectors.