{"id":481396,"date":"2022-04-02T08:28:03","date_gmt":"2022-04-02T02:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=481396"},"modified":"2022-04-02T08:55:21","modified_gmt":"2022-04-02T03:25:21","slug":"putting-energy-security-first-buying-discounted-russian-oil-fm-sitharaman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/putting-energy-security-first-buying-discounted-russian-oil-fm-sitharaman\/","title":{"rendered":"Putting energy security first, buying discounted Russian oil: FM Sitharaman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Friday that India had already started buying discounted crude oil from Russia and has received 3-4 days worth of supply.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the India Business Leaders Awards, Sitharaman also said that she was entering financial year 2022-23 (FY23) with \u201ccautious optimism\u201d at a time of global commodity price escalation due to the Russia-Ukraine war.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have received quite a number of barrels. I would think about 3-4 days of supply. I would put my country\u2019s national interest and energy security first. If fuel is available at a discount, why shouldn\u2019t India buy it,\u201d Sitharaman said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Friday that India had already started buying discounted crude oil from Russia and has received 3-4 days worth of supply. Speaking at the India Business Leaders Awards, Sitharaman also said that she was entering financial year 2022-23 (FY23) with \u201ccautious optimism\u201d at a time of global commodity price escalation due to the Russia-Ukraine war. \u201cWe have received quite a number of barrels. I would think about 3-4 days of supply. I would put my country\u2019s national interest and energy security first. If fuel is available at a discount, why shouldn\u2019t India buy it,\u201d [&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-481396","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\/481396","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=481396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}