{"id":197521,"date":"2022-07-27T18:18:25","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T12:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=197521"},"modified":"2022-07-27T18:18:25","modified_gmt":"2022-07-27T12:48:25","slug":"india-seen-overtaking-china-as-biggest-importer-of-seaborne-russian-crude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-seen-overtaking-china-as-biggest-importer-of-seaborne-russian-crude\/","title":{"rendered":"India seen overtaking China as biggest importer of seaborne Russian crude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201cIndia seen overtaking China as biggest importer of seaborne Russian crude\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> Business Standard <\/b>on<b> 27th July 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India is understood to have overtaken China as the top destination for seaborne Russian crude oil this month.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is the first time Indian imports of seaborne Russian crude have exceeded those from China.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Note:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Russian crude oil travelling through pipelines is not included in this study. However, it is estimated to be only around 10 to 20% of all crude oil flowing out of Russia.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>Why has India ramped up Russian oil imports?<\/b><\/h5>\n<figure id=\"attachment_197522\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-197522\" style=\"width: 452px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-197522 \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/1658858352-6389.jpg?resize=452%2C280&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Russian Crude\" width=\"452\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/1658858352-6389.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/1658858352-6389.jpg?resize=300%2C186&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 452px) 100vw, 452px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-197522\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Business Standard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Russia has emerged as one of India\u2019s top three crude oil suppliers since the war broke out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The invasion unleashed sanctions by the United States and Europe, prompting Russia to offer discounts of around $30 a barrel on the Urals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hence, India ha<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">s taken advantage of discounted prices to ramp up oil imports from Russia at a time when global oil prices are rising.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cIndia seen overtaking China as biggest importer of seaborne Russian crude\u201d published in Business Standard on 27th July 2022. What is the News? India is understood to have overtaken China as the top destination for seaborne Russian crude oil this month.\u00a0This is the first time Indian imports&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-seen-overtaking-china-as-biggest-importer-of-seaborne-russian-crude\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India seen overtaking China as biggest importer of seaborne Russian crude<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,3127,9],"tags":[10503],"class_list":["post-197521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-economy","category-public","tag-business-standard","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700775156,"cached_date":1704766171},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}