{"id":407427,"date":"2021-03-27T08:45:43","date_gmt":"2021-03-27T03:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=407427"},"modified":"2021-03-27T09:05:45","modified_gmt":"2021-03-27T03:35:45","slug":"india-calls-saudi-arabias-advice-on-tapping-stored-oil-undiplomatic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-calls-saudi-arabias-advice-on-tapping-stored-oil-undiplomatic\/","title":{"rendered":"India calls Saudi Arabia&#8217;s advice on tapping stored oil &#8216;undiplomatic&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI (Reuters) &#8211; Indian oil minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Friday described his Saudi counterpart&#8217;s advice to reduce oil stores to tackle high crude prices as &#8220;undiplomatic&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That was in a way (an) undiplomatic answer by some of our old friend. I politely disagree with that kind of approach.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Certainly India has its own strategy, when and how to use our own storage, and we are conscious about our interests,&#8221; Pradhan said at an event.<\/p>\n<p>Pradhan has criticised OPEC and Saudi output cuts aimed at supporting prices and suggested India will have to look for energy alternatives to Gulf oil, its main source of crude.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI (Reuters) &#8211; Indian oil minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Friday described his Saudi counterpart&#8217;s advice to reduce oil stores to tackle high crude prices as &#8220;undiplomatic&#8221;. &#8220;That was in a way (an) undiplomatic answer by some of our old friend. I politely disagree with that kind of approach. &#8220;Certainly India has its own strategy, when and how to use our own storage, and we are conscious about our interests,&#8221; Pradhan said at an event. Pradhan has criticised OPEC and Saudi output cuts aimed at supporting prices and suggested India will have to look for energy alternatives to Gulf oil, [&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-407427","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\/407427","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=407427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}