{"id":385585,"date":"2020-11-23T08:36:33","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T03:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=385585"},"modified":"2020-11-23T09:23:15","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T03:53:15","slug":"pm-modi-says-india-set-to-double-oil-refining-capacity-in-five-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/pm-modi-says-india-set-to-double-oil-refining-capacity-in-five-years\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Modi says India set to double oil refining capacity in five years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India plans to nearly double its oil refining capacity in the next five years, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday, offering a much more aggressive timeline than previously despite the coronavirus pandemic blighting the economy. <\/p>\n<p>The country&#8217;s energy minister was quoted  in June as saying India&#8217;s oil refining capacity could jump to 450-500 million tonnes in 10 years from the current level of about 250 million tonnes. <\/p>\n<p>But addressing a petroleum university&#8217;s convocation, Modi said &#8220;work is being done to nearly double the country&#8217;s oil refining capacity in the next five years&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>The convocation was also addressed virtually by billionaire Mukesh Ambani, whose Reliance Industries Ltd operates the world&#8217;s biggest oil refinery in Modi&#8217;s home state of Gujarat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India plans to nearly double its oil refining capacity in the next five years, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday, offering a much more aggressive timeline than previously despite the coronavirus pandemic blighting the economy. The country&#8217;s energy minister was quoted in June as saying India&#8217;s oil refining capacity could jump to 450-500 million tonnes in 10 years from the current level of about 250 million tonnes. But addressing a petroleum university&#8217;s convocation, Modi said &#8220;work is being done to nearly double the country&#8217;s oil refining capacity in the next five years&#8221;. The convocation was also addressed virtually by [&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":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-385585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385585","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=385585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}