{"id":406968,"date":"2021-03-25T10:26:34","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T04:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=406968"},"modified":"2021-03-25T11:27:52","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T05:57:52","slug":"africa-can-play-central-role-in-indias-oil-diversification-dharmendra-pradhan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/africa-can-play-central-role-in-indias-oil-diversification-dharmendra-pradhan\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa can play central role in India&#8217;s oil diversification: Dharmendra Pradhan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI : African nations could play a central role in efforts by India to diversify its sources of oil and gas, India&#8217;s oil minister said on Wednesday, as the nation strives to reduce its energy reliance on the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>India, the world&#8217;s third biggest oil importer, has asked state refiners to speed up the diversification of oil imports to gradually cut their dependence on the Middle East after OPEC+ decided earlier this month to largely continue production cuts in April. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As India seeks to further diversify sourcing of crude oil and LNG, Africa has a central role &#8211; largely due to its proximity and absence of any choke points in trans-shipments,&#8221; Dharmendra Pradhan told an industry summit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI : African nations could play a central role in efforts by India to diversify its sources of oil and gas, India&#8217;s oil minister said on Wednesday, as the nation strives to reduce its energy reliance on the Middle East. India, the world&#8217;s third biggest oil importer, has asked state refiners to speed up the diversification of oil imports to gradually cut their dependence on the Middle East after OPEC+ decided earlier this month to largely continue production cuts in April. &#8220;As India seeks to further diversify sourcing of crude oil and LNG, Africa has a central role &#8211; [&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":[139,130,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406968","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\/406968","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=406968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}