{"id":585802,"date":"2023-06-21T09:45:41","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T04:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=585802"},"modified":"2023-06-21T10:28:14","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T04:58:14","slug":"india-aims-to-expand-its-annual-oil-purchases-from-iraq-hardeep-puri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-aims-to-expand-its-annual-oil-purchases-from-iraq-hardeep-puri\/","title":{"rendered":"India aims to expand its annual oil purchases from Iraq: Hardeep Puri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI (Reuters) &#8211; India aims to expand its annual oil purchases from Iraq from 1 billion barrels currently, Oil Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on Twitter after meeting his Iraqi counterpart Hayan Abdel-Ghani in New Delhi on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Iraq used to be India&#8217;s top oil supplier but has slipped to second position as Indian refiners have ramped up purchases of Russian oil, sold at a discount since the war in Ukraine led to Western sanctions on Russia.<\/p>\n<p>India is Iraq&#8217;s second largest trade partner with annual trade worth $37 billion, Puri said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI (Reuters) &#8211; India aims to expand its annual oil purchases from Iraq from 1 billion barrels currently, Oil Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on Twitter after meeting his Iraqi counterpart Hayan Abdel-Ghani in New Delhi on Tuesday. Iraq used to be India&#8217;s top oil supplier but has slipped to second position as Indian refiners have ramped up purchases of Russian oil, sold at a discount since the war in Ukraine led to Western sanctions on Russia. India is Iraq&#8217;s second largest trade partner with annual trade worth $37 billion, Puri said.<\/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-585802","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\/585802","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=585802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}