{"id":263331,"date":"2019-03-11T06:02:26","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T06:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=263331"},"modified":"2019-03-11T06:02:26","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T06:02:26","slug":"india-tries-to-impress-upon-saudi-arabia-in-maintaining-global-oil-balance-and-supplies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-tries-to-impress-upon-saudi-arabia-in-maintaining-global-oil-balance-and-supplies\/","title":{"rendered":"India tries to impress upon Saudi Arabia in maintaining global oil balance and supplies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI:  Concerned about rising international crude oil prices; India, the world\u2019s third-largest oil importer has raised the issue with Saudi Arabia, during the visit of Gulf kingdom\u2019s energy minister Khalid A. Al-Falih.<\/p>\n<p>This was articulated by India\u2019s petroleum minister Dharmendra Pradhan in a meeting on Saturday. Saudi Arabia is a crucial source of energy for India and the second largest supplier of crude and cooking gas to India. India imported 36.8 million tonnes of crude oil from Saudi Arabia that accounted for 16.7% of total imports in 2017-18.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring the meeting, Shri Pradhan referred to Saudi Arabia\u2019s pre-eminent role as a leading producer of crude oil in the world, and in maintaining global oil market balance,&#8221; India\u2019s petroleum and natural gas ministry said in a statement on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Concerned about rising international crude oil prices; India, the world\u2019s third-largest oil importer has raised the issue with Saudi Arabia, during the visit of Gulf kingdom\u2019s energy minister Khalid A. Al-Falih. This was articulated by India\u2019s petroleum minister Dharmendra Pradhan in a meeting on Saturday. Saudi Arabia is a crucial source of energy for India and the second largest supplier of crude and cooking gas to India. India imported 36.8 million tonnes of crude oil from Saudi Arabia that accounted for 16.7% of total imports in 2017-18. \u201cDuring the meeting, Shri Pradhan referred to Saudi Arabia\u2019s pre-eminent role [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}