{"id":292512,"date":"2019-09-18T07:11:51","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T07:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=292512"},"modified":"2019-09-18T07:11:51","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T07:11:51","slug":"india-likely-to-buy-more-oil-from-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-likely-to-buy-more-oil-from-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"India likely to buy more oil from Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Amid the nation\u2019s severe volatility concerns in crude oil prices, the government is likely to increase oil imports from Russia. It is also likely that India\u2019s oil marketing firms may hike their investment portfolios in Russia\u2019s oilfields. The government\u2019s move comes at a time when oil price fluctuations build anxiety in the energy market in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday I met had Igor Sechin, the CEO of Rosneft. We elaborately discussed the possibility of oil imports. We are confident we will have a deal,\u201d petroleum minister Dharmendra Pradhan told reporters here on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>As India imports a small quantity of oil from Russia, the government is further looking to raise it through a new sea navigation channel between Vladivostok and Chennai. It is also learnt that major oil marketing firms in the country are expected to increase their investment portfolios in Russia\u2019s oilfields with this move.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Amid the nation\u2019s severe volatility concerns in crude oil prices, the government is likely to increase oil imports from Russia. It is also likely that India\u2019s oil marketing firms may hike their investment portfolios in Russia\u2019s oilfields. The government\u2019s move comes at a time when oil price fluctuations build anxiety in the energy market in the country. \u201cToday I met had Igor Sechin, the CEO of Rosneft. We elaborately discussed the possibility of oil imports. We are confident we will have a deal,\u201d petroleum minister Dharmendra Pradhan told reporters here on Tuesday. As India imports a small quantity [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292512","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=292512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}