{"id":402794,"date":"2021-03-03T10:46:03","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T05:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=402794"},"modified":"2021-03-03T11:11:52","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T05:41:52","slug":"india-urges-opec-to-raise-oil-output-at-this-weeks-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-urges-opec-to-raise-oil-output-at-this-weeks-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"India urges OPEC+ to raise oil output at this week\u2019s meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India has reiterated its call to OPEC+ to increase oil production from April as the alliance meets this week to discuss future steps.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cArtificial cuts to keep the price going up is not something we support,&#8221; Tarun Kapoor, secretary at India\u2019s Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, told reporters in Moscow on Wednesday at the opening ceremony of India\u2019s energy center.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not the first time India, one of the biggest buyers of the producer group\u2019s crude, has urged the Organization of Exporting Petroleum Countries and its partners to pump more oil. In January, when Saudi Arabia surprised the market with a voluntary production cut of 1 million barrels a day in February and March, Indian oil and gas minister Dharmendra Pradhan said such policy \u201ccontradiction&#8221; is \u201ccreating confusion for the consuming countries.&#8221; Higher crude prices amid the OPEC+ deal were also harming the global economic recovery, Pradhan said last month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India has reiterated its call to OPEC+ to increase oil production from April as the alliance meets this week to discuss future steps. \u201cArtificial cuts to keep the price going up is not something we support,&#8221; Tarun Kapoor, secretary at India\u2019s Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, told reporters in Moscow on Wednesday at the opening ceremony of India\u2019s energy center. It\u2019s not the first time India, one of the biggest buyers of the producer group\u2019s crude, has urged the Organization of Exporting Petroleum Countries and its partners to pump more oil. In January, when Saudi Arabia surprised the market [&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-402794","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\/402794","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=402794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}