{"id":643729,"date":"2025-08-20T08:12:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T02:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=643729"},"modified":"2025-08-20T08:38:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T03:08:34","slug":"china-refiners-grab-russian-oil-as-trump-menaces-flows-to-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/china-refiners-grab-russian-oil-as-trump-menaces-flows-to-india\/","title":{"rendered":"China refiners grab Russian oil as Trump menaces flows to India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil refiners in China have stepped up purchases of Russia\u2019s flagship crude, seizing an opportunity to take discounted cargoes relinquished by India as Washington ramps up trade tariffs against New Delhi.<\/p>\n<p>While China is the largest importer of Russian oil, it tends to take deliveries from the nation\u2019s Far East. Yet so far in August, shipments of Urals \u2014 which loads from Baltic and Black Sea ports \u2014 were almost 75,000 barrels a day. That\u2019s almost double the year-to-date average of about 40,000 barrels, according to Kpler. In contrast, exports to India sunk to no more than 400,000 barrels a day this month, compared with the average of 1.18 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil refiners in China have stepped up purchases of Russia\u2019s flagship crude, seizing an opportunity to take discounted cargoes relinquished by India as Washington ramps up trade tariffs against New Delhi. While China is the largest importer of Russian oil, it tends to take deliveries from the nation\u2019s Far East. Yet so far in August, shipments of Urals \u2014 which loads from Baltic and Black Sea ports \u2014 were almost 75,000 barrels a day. That\u2019s almost double the year-to-date average of about 40,000 barrels, according to Kpler. In contrast, exports to India sunk to no more than 400,000 barrels a [&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":[130,191,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-643729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643729","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=643729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}