{"id":408767,"date":"2021-04-03T10:34:39","date_gmt":"2021-04-03T05:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=408767"},"modified":"2021-04-03T10:34:39","modified_gmt":"2021-04-03T05:04:39","slug":"india-sends-out-clear-signal-of-its-clout-foreshadowing-coming-changes-in-world-oil-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-sends-out-clear-signal-of-its-clout-foreshadowing-coming-changes-in-world-oil-scene\/","title":{"rendered":"India sends out clear signal of its clout, foreshadowing coming changes in world oil scene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When India&#8217;s government last month asked refiners to speed up diversification and reduce dependence on the Middle East &#8211; days after OPEC+ said it would maintain production cuts &#8211; it sent a message about its clout and foreshadowed changes to the world&#8217;s energy maps.<\/p>\n<p>It was a move that had been in the works for years, fuelled by repeated comments from Indian Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, who in 2015 called oil purchases a &#8220;weapon&#8221; for his country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When India&#8217;s government last month asked refiners to speed up diversification and reduce dependence on the Middle East &#8211; days after OPEC+ said it would maintain production cuts &#8211; it sent a message about its clout and foreshadowed changes to the world&#8217;s energy maps. It was a move that had been in the works for years, fuelled by repeated comments from Indian Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, who in 2015 called oil purchases a &#8220;weapon&#8221; for his country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,191,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-408767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408767","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}