{"id":396787,"date":"2021-01-22T10:53:09","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T05:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=396787"},"modified":"2021-01-22T11:42:18","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T06:12:18","slug":"india-hopes-for-more-iran-venezuela-oil-exports-under-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-hopes-for-more-iran-venezuela-oil-exports-under-biden\/","title":{"rendered":"India hopes for more Iran, Venezuela oil exports under Biden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India is hoping US President Joe Biden\u2019s administration will take a softer line against adversaries Iran and Venezuela, enabling the world\u2019s third-largest oil importer to diversify its sources of crude.<\/p>\n<p>The country would be happy if the number of oil-producing nations rise, Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said in an interview on Bloomberg TV, reiterating comments that he made last month. \u201cSome geopolitical changes are there,&#8221; he said. \u201cLet us wait for how things unfold.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The South Asian economy is heavily reliant on energy imports and its refiners struggled to cope as the White House\u2019s aggressive foreign policy over the last few years restricted access to Iranian and Venezuelan oil. Pradhan also expressed his exasperation with Saudi Arabia, after the de-facto leader of OPEC announced unilateral output cuts in response to a resurgence in Covid-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India is hoping US President Joe Biden\u2019s administration will take a softer line against adversaries Iran and Venezuela, enabling the world\u2019s third-largest oil importer to diversify its sources of crude. The country would be happy if the number of oil-producing nations rise, Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said in an interview on Bloomberg TV, reiterating comments that he made last month. \u201cSome geopolitical changes are there,&#8221; he said. \u201cLet us wait for how things unfold.&#8221; The South Asian economy is heavily reliant on energy imports and its refiners struggled to cope as the White House\u2019s aggressive foreign policy over the last [&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-396787","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\/396787","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=396787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}