{"id":482875,"date":"2022-04-07T09:07:20","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T03:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=482875"},"modified":"2022-04-07T09:28:52","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T03:58:52","slug":"bpcl-buys-2-million-barrels-of-russian-urals-for-may-loading-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/bpcl-buys-2-million-barrels-of-russian-urals-for-may-loading-report\/","title":{"rendered":"BPCL buys 2 million barrels of Russian Urals for May loading: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI (Reuters) &#8211; India&#8217;s Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd has bought 2 million barrels of Russian Urals for May loading from trader Trafigura, two sources familiar with the purchase said.<\/p>\n<p>Refiners in India, the world&#8217;s third biggest oil importer and consumer, have been snapping up Russian oil through spot deals since Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, taking advantage of deep discounts as other buyers back away.<\/p>\n<p>BPCL and Trafigura did not immediately respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p>The state-run refiner regularly buys Russian Urals for its 310,000 barrels per day (bpd) Kochi refinery in southern India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI (Reuters) &#8211; India&#8217;s Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd has bought 2 million barrels of Russian Urals for May loading from trader Trafigura, two sources familiar with the purchase said. Refiners in India, the world&#8217;s third biggest oil importer and consumer, have been snapping up Russian oil through spot deals since Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, taking advantage of deep discounts as other buyers back away. BPCL and Trafigura did not immediately respond to requests for comment. The state-run refiner regularly buys Russian Urals for its 310,000 barrels per day (bpd) Kochi refinery in southern India.<\/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-482875","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\/482875","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=482875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}