{"id":604664,"date":"2023-09-20T08:39:27","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T03:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=604664"},"modified":"2023-09-20T09:13:59","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T03:43:59","slug":"oil-imports-fall-for-third-month-in-row-in-aug-on-lower-russian-shipments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-imports-fall-for-third-month-in-row-in-aug-on-lower-russian-shipments\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil imports fall for third month in row in Aug on lower Russian shipments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s crude oil imports fell for a third month in a row in August, government data showed on Tuesday, as refiners in the world&#8217;s third biggest importer carried out maintenance and reduced shipments from Russia. <\/p>\n<p>Crude imports fell 3.9% month-on-month to 18.73 million metric tons in August, Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell (PPAC) data showed. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Imports are down, which was expected due to refinery maintenance,&#8221; said LSEG analyst Ehsan Ul Haq. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Higher prices for Russian oil could also have led to lower imports by Indian refiners,&#8221; said Haq, adding that demand could nevertheless pick up during the festive season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s crude oil imports fell for a third month in a row in August, government data showed on Tuesday, as refiners in the world&#8217;s third biggest importer carried out maintenance and reduced shipments from Russia. Crude imports fell 3.9% month-on-month to 18.73 million metric tons in August, Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell (PPAC) data showed. &#8220;Imports are down, which was expected due to refinery maintenance,&#8221; said LSEG analyst Ehsan Ul Haq. &#8220;Higher prices for Russian oil could also have led to lower imports by Indian refiners,&#8221; said Haq, adding that demand could nevertheless pick up during the festive season.<\/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-604664","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\/604664","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=604664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}