{"id":443789,"date":"2021-10-21T08:42:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T03:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=443789"},"modified":"2021-10-21T09:06:53","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T03:36:53","slug":"india-talks-tough-at-ceraweek-pushes-for-lowering-of-crude-oil-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-talks-tough-at-ceraweek-pushes-for-lowering-of-crude-oil-price\/","title":{"rendered":"India talks tough at CERAWeek, pushes for lowering of crude oil price"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India has taken an aggressive stand during conversations with oil producing nations and pushed for lowering the price of crude oil. Speaking at the ongoing India Energy Forum by CERAWeek, Petroleum Minister Hardeep Puri on Wednesday said that petrol, diesel, Piped Natural Gas (PNG), and Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) prices have risen to the highest levels ever because of supply regulations maintained by oil producing nations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe global economy needs clean, affordable, reliable, sustainable energy to speed up the post pandemic energy,\u201d Puri said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCrude oil accounts for nearly 20 per cent of our import bill. Our fuel import bill has jumped from $ 8.8 billion (in quarter ending June 2020) to $ 24 billion in quarter ending June 2021\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India has taken an aggressive stand during conversations with oil producing nations and pushed for lowering the price of crude oil. Speaking at the ongoing India Energy Forum by CERAWeek, Petroleum Minister Hardeep Puri on Wednesday said that petrol, diesel, Piped Natural Gas (PNG), and Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) prices have risen to the highest levels ever because of supply regulations maintained by oil producing nations. \u201cThe global economy needs clean, affordable, reliable, sustainable energy to speed up the post pandemic energy,\u201d Puri said. \u201cCrude oil accounts for nearly 20 per cent of our import bill. Our fuel import bill [&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-443789","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\/443789","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=443789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}