{"id":660814,"date":"2026-05-23T11:18:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T05:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=660814"},"modified":"2026-05-23T12:44:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T07:14:49","slug":"april-crude-imports-dip-4-3-year-on-year-but-oil-bill-jumps-over-50-on-price-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/april-crude-imports-dip-4-3-year-on-year-but-oil-bill-jumps-over-50-on-price-surge\/","title":{"rendered":"April crude imports dip 4.3% year-on-year, but oil bill jumps over 50% on price surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The volume of crude purchased by India in April this year fell by 4.3% compared with the same period last year, but the import bill surged by more than 50% due to a sharp rise in global oil prices, provisional data compiled by govt\u2019s Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell showed.<\/p>\n<p>India imported 20.1 million tonnes (MT) of crude in April this year and paid $16.3 billion for it, compared with 21 MT purchased for $10.7 billion in the same month last year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The volume of crude purchased by India in April this year fell by 4.3% compared with the same period last year, but the import bill surged by more than 50% due to a sharp rise in global oil prices, provisional data compiled by govt\u2019s Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell showed. India imported 20.1 million tonnes (MT) of crude in April this year and paid $16.3 billion for it, compared with 21 MT purchased for $10.7 billion in the same month last year.<\/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-660814","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\/660814","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=660814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":660815,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660814\/revisions\/660815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}