{"id":575228,"date":"2023-05-08T10:58:07","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T05:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=575228"},"modified":"2023-05-08T11:34:08","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T06:04:08","slug":"chinas-renewed-appetite-for-urals-could-temper-indias-russian-oil-buys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/chinas-renewed-appetite-for-urals-could-temper-indias-russian-oil-buys\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s renewed appetite for Urals could temper India\u2019s Russian oil buys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese refiners are ramping up purchases of Russia\u2019s Urals crude\u2013the mainstay of India\u2019s Russian oil imports\u2013leading to competition between the two Asian neighbours, which, among other factors, could result in New Delhi\u2019s oil imports from Moscow peaking as early as this month.<\/p>\n<p>In April, India\u2019s import of Russian crude set a new record of 1.68 million barrels per day (bpd), accounting for 36.4 per cent of India\u2019s total oil imports of 4.61 million bpd for the month, according to data provided by energy cargo tracker Vortexa. <\/p>\n<p>In fact, India\u2019s Russian oil imports in April were higher than the combined volumes supplied by traditional heavyweights Iraq and Saudi Arabia,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese refiners are ramping up purchases of Russia\u2019s Urals crude\u2013the mainstay of India\u2019s Russian oil imports\u2013leading to competition between the two Asian neighbours, which, among other factors, could result in New Delhi\u2019s oil imports from Moscow peaking as early as this month. In April, India\u2019s import of Russian crude set a new record of 1.68 million barrels per day (bpd), accounting for 36.4 per cent of India\u2019s total oil imports of 4.61 million bpd for the month, according to data provided by energy cargo tracker Vortexa. In fact, India\u2019s Russian oil imports in April were higher than the combined volumes [&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-575228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575228","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=575228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}