{"id":644417,"date":"2025-08-27T08:37:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T03:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=644417"},"modified":"2025-08-27T09:40:39","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T04:10:39","slug":"india-to-ease-russian-oil-purchases-as-higher-us-levies-loom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-to-ease-russian-oil-purchases-as-higher-us-levies-loom\/","title":{"rendered":"India to ease Russian oil purchases as higher US levies loom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Refiners in India, among the largest buyers of Russian crude, are planning to trim their purchases in the coming weeks, a modest concession to Washington\u2019s hawks less than a day ahead of a hike in US tariffs, but also a signal that the country has no plans to sever ties with Moscow. <\/p>\n<p>State-run and private processors, including heavyweight Reliance Industries Ltd., are expected to buy 1.4 million-to-1.6 million barrels a day for October loading and beyond, said people with knowledge of the matter who asked not to be identified because they\u2019re not authorized to speak publicly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Refiners in India, among the largest buyers of Russian crude, are planning to trim their purchases in the coming weeks, a modest concession to Washington\u2019s hawks less than a day ahead of a hike in US tariffs, but also a signal that the country has no plans to sever ties with Moscow. State-run and private processors, including heavyweight Reliance Industries Ltd., are expected to buy 1.4 million-to-1.6 million barrels a day for October loading and beyond, said people with knowledge of the matter who asked not to be identified because they\u2019re not authorized to speak publicly.<\/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-644417","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\/644417","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=644417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}