{"id":310487,"date":"2020-01-15T11:30:13","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T06:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=310487"},"modified":"2020-01-15T11:39:22","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T06:09:22","slug":"india-exploring-ways-to-source-crude-oil-from-russia-pradhan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-exploring-ways-to-source-crude-oil-from-russia-pradhan\/","title":{"rendered":"India exploring ways to source crude oil from Russia: Pradhan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: India is exploring ways to source crude oil from Russia, Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has said. \u201cWe are working on the strategy to diversify our crude oil supply sources and we are now exploring ways to import crude from Russia as well,\u201d Pradhan told a Russian media delegation. <\/p>\n<p>Indian refiners have been seeking crude oil from different parts of the globe to reduce their dependence on the conflict-prone Middle-East region that currently makes up about 60 percent of its imports. \u201cWe are keen to explore the new sea route to source crude oil and LNG through Russia\u2019s Arctic. The route has the potential to cut the cost and time for transporting LNG from Russia to India, &#8221; Pradhan said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: India is exploring ways to source crude oil from Russia, Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has said. \u201cWe are working on the strategy to diversify our crude oil supply sources and we are now exploring ways to import crude from Russia as well,\u201d Pradhan told a Russian media delegation. Indian refiners have been seeking crude oil from different parts of the globe to reduce their dependence on the conflict-prone Middle-East region that currently makes up about 60 percent of its imports. \u201cWe are keen to explore the new sea route to source crude oil and LNG through Russia\u2019s Arctic. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,191,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310487","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}