{"id":648720,"date":"2025-10-04T10:42:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T05:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=648720"},"modified":"2025-10-04T11:42:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T06:12:14","slug":"indias-oil-market-splits-as-state-refiners-cut-russian-crude-private-players-ramp-up-buys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indias-oil-market-splits-as-state-refiners-cut-russian-crude-private-players-ramp-up-buys\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s oil market splits as state refiners cut Russian crude &amp; private players ramp up buys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s oil market is split, with state-run refiners retreating from Russian crude amid US pressure and narrowing discounts while private refiners are stepping up sourcing.<\/p>\n<p>State-run refiners cut Russian crude purchases in September, signalling caution. Their imports averaged 605,000 barrels per day (bpd) \u2014 32% below their April-August average, 22% lower than in August, and 45% below June levels, according to Kpler, a global real-time data and analytics provider. Private refiners lifted 979,000 bpd of Russian oil, 4% above their April-August average, 8% higher than in August, and nearly unchanged from June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s oil market is split, with state-run refiners retreating from Russian crude amid US pressure and narrowing discounts while private refiners are stepping up sourcing. State-run refiners cut Russian crude purchases in September, signalling caution. Their imports averaged 605,000 barrels per day (bpd) \u2014 32% below their April-August average, 22% lower than in August, and 45% below June levels, according to Kpler, a global real-time data and analytics provider. Private refiners lifted 979,000 bpd of Russian oil, 4% above their April-August average, 8% higher than in August, and nearly unchanged from June.<\/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-648720","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\/648720","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=648720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}