{"id":553577,"date":"2023-02-07T10:07:15","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T04:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=553577"},"modified":"2023-02-07T11:07:35","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T05:37:35","slug":"hardeep-singh-puri-says-india-will-play-market-card-in-oil-imports-to-buy-from-whoever-offers-stable-affordable-supply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/hardeep-singh-puri-says-india-will-play-market-card-in-oil-imports-to-buy-from-whoever-offers-stable-affordable-supply\/","title":{"rendered":"Hardeep Singh Puri says India will \u201cplay market card\u201d in oil imports, to buy from whoever offers stable, affordable supply"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the third-largest consumer of crude oil, India will \u201cplay the market card\u201d to secure affordable and predictable supply from \u201cwherever it is available\u201d to ensure energy security for its citizens, Petroleum Minister Hardeep Singh Puri today said.<\/p>\n<p>The ramp-up in India\u2019s import of discounted Russian oil after Moscow\u2019s invasion of Ukraine almost a year ago has irked much of the West. However, Puri has time and again defended the purchases, saying that the government\u2019s primary moral responsibility is to provide affordable energy to the Indian consumer.<\/p>\n<p>Russia, which used to be a marginal player in India\u2019s oil import basket, is now its top supplier of crude,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the third-largest consumer of crude oil, India will \u201cplay the market card\u201d to secure affordable and predictable supply from \u201cwherever it is available\u201d to ensure energy security for its citizens, Petroleum Minister Hardeep Singh Puri today said. The ramp-up in India\u2019s import of discounted Russian oil after Moscow\u2019s invasion of Ukraine almost a year ago has irked much of the West. However, Puri has time and again defended the purchases, saying that the government\u2019s primary moral responsibility is to provide affordable energy to the Indian consumer. Russia, which used to be a marginal player in India\u2019s oil import basket, [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-553577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553577","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=553577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}