MEA says securing India's energy needs is a top priority and cautions against double standards amid NATO threat of secondary sanctions over Russian oil imports
India's import of crude oil from Russia rose to an 11-month high in June as refiners topped up tanks amid the Israel-Iran war, analysts said. India imported 2.08 million barrels per day (bpd) of Russian crude in June, the highest since July 2024, according to vessel tracking data from global commodity market analytics firm Kpler. "While India's global imports of crude oil dropped by 6 per cent in June, Russian volumes saw an 8 per cent month-on-month rise to their highest levels since July 2024," European think tank Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air said. "More than half of these imports from Russia were made by three refineries in India, which also export refined products to G7+ countries." India imports more than 85 per cent of its requirement of crude oil, which is turned into fuels like petrol and diesel in refineries. Traditionally, the Middle East was the main source, but Russia has been the mainstay supplier for nearly three years now. After much of the West shunn
Points to deepening India-US trade; diversified crude flows in as counterbalance
The Senate bill, backed by Trump, seeks to penalise nations buying Russian oil; it could reshape US trade ties with India and China amid Ukraine conflict
Reliance Industries Ltd. and Nayara Energy Ltd. alone took 45 per cent of Russia's shipments of the medium-sour variety
Oil prices fell to four-year lows as an Opec+ decision to expedite its output hikes stoked fears about rising global supply at a time when the demand outlook is uncertain
The European Union has put forward a new sanction package against Russia over Ukraine and proposed to lower the Group of Seven nations' price cap on Russian crude oil to $45 a barrel from $60 a barrel
More ESPO was offered to India as Chinese state-owned companies continue shunning sanctioned crudes and crude quotas are running tight for Chinese independent refiners, analysts said
The European Union on Tuesday agreed to impose fresh sanctions on Russia, notably targeting almost 200 ships from the shadow fleet illicitly transporting oil to skirt Western restrictions put in place over Moscow's war in Ukraine. The 27-nation bloc targeted 189 ships in all, and imposed asset freezes and travel bans on several officials as well as on a number of Russian companies. The measures were endorsed by EU foreign ministers in Brussels. EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said that while President Vladimir Putin feigns interest in peace, more sanctions are in the works. Russia's actions and those who enable Russia face severe consequences. Russia uses its shadow fleet of ships to transport oil and gas, or to carry stolen Ukrainian grain. The EU has now targeted almost 350 of the ships in total. The new measures are not obviously linked to Russian delays in agreeing to a ceasefire. Work on the measures began in the days after the last package was finalised three months ...
The EU has a non-binding aim to end its reliance on Russian fossil fuels by 2027, which it set after Moscow's 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine
S Jaishankar said that Europe must display some 'sensitivity and mutuality of interest' for closer ties with India
Indian Oil Corporation had a term deal with Russia, which expired in March 2023 and has not been renewed since
Indian Oil, Bharat Petroleum and Hindustan Petroleum, among others, had agreed to term contract extensions this year with Iraq, Saudi Arabia and UAE
Trump raised the prospect of so-called secondary tariffs on buyers of Russian oil if President Vladimir Putin refused a ceasefire with Ukraine
The Honduran-flagged Andaman Skies, built in 2004, loaded 767,000 barrels at Murmansk on Feb. 24, and was due to discharge at Vadinar on March 30
India is the biggest buyer of seaborne Russian crude. Russian oil accounted for about 35 per cent of overall crude imports in 2024 by India, the world's third biggest oil importer and consumer
Most of the cargoes were booked at a discount of less than $3 a barrel to benchmarks, the people said
Reliance Industries, Adani Group, and JSW Group may be among potential buyers of Rosneft's 49.13% stake in Nayara Energy
Billionaire Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries Ltd is estimated to have earned 724 million euros (about Rs 6,850 crore) from exporting fuel made from Russian crude oil to the US in one year, an European think tank said in a report. "From January 2024 to the end of January 2025, the US imported EUR 2.8 billion of refined oil from six refineries in India and Turkey that process Russian crude. An estimated EUR 1.3 billion of this was refined from Russian crude," the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) said in a report. US imports of fuels such as petrol and diesel from Jamnagar in Gujarat, where Reliance's twin oil refineries are located, were EUR 2 billion. Of this, "EUR 724 million (is) estimated to be refined from Russian crude," it said. Western and US sanctions on Russia, that followed its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, do not prohibit or sanction buying/using Russian crude oil and exporting fuels such as diesel derived from it. Gujarat's Vadinar, where ...
India, the world's third largest oil consuming and importing nation, spent 102.5 billion euro (about Rs 1.5 lakh crore) on buying crude oil from Russia since the start of the Ukraine war, a European think tank said on Thursday. The Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) released a report on payments to Russia for fossil fuels since February 24, 2022. "According to our estimates, since the beginning of the war, Russia earned EUR 835 billion in revenue from fossil fuel exports," it said. China was the biggest buyer of Russian fossil fuel at EUR 235 billion (made up of EUR 170 billion for oil, EUR 34.3 billion for coal and EUR 30.5 billion for gas). India, according to CREA, bought fossil fuel worth EUR 205.84 billion from Russia from the beginning of the war until March 2, 2025. This comprised EUR 112.5 billion (USD 121.59 billion) for purchase of crude oil, which is refined into fuels like petrol and diesel at refineries, and EUR 13.25 billion for coal. India, which is