{"id":658029,"date":"2026-01-27T10:52:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T05:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=658029"},"modified":"2026-01-27T10:52:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T05:22:25","slug":"russia-oils-unexpected-staying-power-in-india-extends-into-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/russia-oils-unexpected-staying-power-in-india-extends-into-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia oil\u2019s unexpected staying power in India extends into 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For much of last year, discounted Russian oil made up the lion\u2019s share of Indian purchases, a financial lifeline for Moscow that also shaved billions off New Delhi\u2019s import bill. Then came US threats, tariffs, sanctions \u2014 and months of disruption.<\/p>\n<p>But against the expectations of many in the market, those Russian flows have proved remarkably resilient. With discounts widening and a US trade deal still elusive, the new normal could include significant purchases well into 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For much of last year, discounted Russian oil made up the lion\u2019s share of Indian purchases, a financial lifeline for Moscow that also shaved billions off New Delhi\u2019s import bill. Then came US threats, tariffs, sanctions \u2014 and months of disruption. But against the expectations of many in the market, those Russian flows have proved remarkably resilient. With discounts widening and a US trade deal still elusive, the new normal could include significant purchases well into 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658029","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}