{"id":659834,"date":"2026-04-04T11:59:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T06:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=659834"},"modified":"2026-04-04T11:59:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T06:29:26","slug":"indias-russian-oil-buys-jump-90-in-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indias-russian-oil-buys-jump-90-in-march\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s Russian oil buys jump 90% in March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India\u2019s purchase of crude from Russia rose 90% in March compared with Feb, even as overall imports declined nearly 15% due to the disruption of energy supplies from West Asia.<\/p>\n<p>The disruption in the Strait of Hormuz, a key energy chokepoint, also led to a 40% fall in India\u2019s petroleum gas (LPG) imports and a decline in natural gas (LNG) shipments in March, forcing New Delhi to scout for alternate sources (see graphic).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India\u2019s purchase of crude from Russia rose 90% in March compared with Feb, even as overall imports declined nearly 15% due to the disruption of energy supplies from West Asia. The disruption in the Strait of Hormuz, a key energy chokepoint, also led to a 40% fall in India\u2019s petroleum gas (LPG) imports and a decline in natural gas (LNG) shipments in March, forcing New Delhi to scout for alternate sources (see graphic).<\/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":[130,219,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659834","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=659834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}