{"id":271238,"date":"2019-04-26T05:48:15","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T05:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=271238"},"modified":"2019-04-26T05:48:15","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T05:48:15","slug":"india-china-step-on-the-gas-on-oil-sourcing-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-china-step-on-the-gas-on-oil-sourcing-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"India, China step on the gas on oil sourcing plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: China and India, the world\u2019s second and third largest oil importers, respectively, are nearing an arrangement to form a buyers\u2019 bloc to bargain collectively for oil supplies and reduce the influence of the Saudi Arabia-led cartel on oil prices, according to three officials aware of the development.<\/p>\n<p>The two strategic rivals have made progress on joint sourcing of crude oil, with Li Fanrong, deputy administrator of China\u2019s National Energy Administration, visiting New Delhi last month.<\/p>\n<p>India and China are attempting to form a buyers\u2019 club that may also persuade the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) oil cartel to pare the premiums placed on oil sold to Asian nations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: China and India, the world\u2019s second and third largest oil importers, respectively, are nearing an arrangement to form a buyers\u2019 bloc to bargain collectively for oil supplies and reduce the influence of the Saudi Arabia-led cartel on oil prices, according to three officials aware of the development. The two strategic rivals have made progress on joint sourcing of crude oil, with Li Fanrong, deputy administrator of China\u2019s National Energy Administration, visiting New Delhi last month. India and China are attempting to form a buyers\u2019 club that may also persuade the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) oil cartel [&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-271238","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\/271238","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=271238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}