{"id":614715,"date":"2023-11-03T10:49:41","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T05:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=614715"},"modified":"2023-11-03T12:35:19","modified_gmt":"2023-11-03T07:05:19","slug":"india-may-buy-venezuelan-oil-if-its-cheap-minister-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-may-buy-venezuelan-oil-if-its-cheap-minister-says\/","title":{"rendered":"India may buy Venezuelan oil if it&#8217;s cheap, minister says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian refiners can process Venezuelan oil and the nation may buy it provided that it is available cheaply, India&#8217;s oil minister said on Wednesday, days after the US temporarily lifted sanctions on OPEC member Venezuela&#8217;s oil sector.<\/p>\n<p>India, the world&#8217;s third biggest oil importer and consumer, ships over 80 per cent of its oil needs from overseas and wants to cut its crude import bill.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is always good when more supplies come to market,&#8221; Oil Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said at an industry event, speaking about Venezuelan oil, and added: &#8220;We will buy from wherever we can get cheaper oil.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian refiners can process Venezuelan oil and the nation may buy it provided that it is available cheaply, India&#8217;s oil minister said on Wednesday, days after the US temporarily lifted sanctions on OPEC member Venezuela&#8217;s oil sector. India, the world&#8217;s third biggest oil importer and consumer, ships over 80 per cent of its oil needs from overseas and wants to cut its crude import bill. &#8220;It is always good when more supplies come to market,&#8221; Oil Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said at an industry event, speaking about Venezuelan oil, and added: &#8220;We will buy from wherever we can get cheaper [&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":[146,130,177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-614715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614715","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=614715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}