In one of his more controversial decisions last week, President Trump said the U.S. would impose an additional 25% on many Indian imports—because of India’s imports of Russian crude oil. The news lifted oil prices, and Indian refiners suspended their Russian oil orders.
“Adequate inventories and no risk of a coal shortage have helped power plants reduce buying from Coal India,” the former chair of Coal India, Partha Sarathi Bhattacharya, said, as quoted by Reuters. However, “this is transient, and coal buying will increase once power demand starts growing faster,” the former Coal India executive also said.
ADNOC Gas chief executive Fatema Al Nuaimi said, “This long-term agreement with HPCL, our third with Indian companies in the past year, reflects the robust energy partnership between the UAE and India. This milestone underscores ADNOC Gas’ ability to reliably meet rising global demand for LNG and support India’s ambition to increase natural gas to 15 percent of its primary energy mix by 2030”.
Things are going to change for Nayara Energy, a large Indian refiner, in which Russia’s Rosneft has a sizable stake. Nayara Energy was named specifically among entities to be sanctioned by the EU. The Indian company condemned the sanctions as “unjust and unilateral”, echoing New Delhi’s official response to the sanction package, which said the Indian government did not support that package.
Freight rates for Russian Urals crude from Baltic ports to India have dipped again in July, falling to $5.0–$5.3 million per Aframax shipment—down from $5.5–$5.7 million in June—as more tankers become available.
India is on track to import nearly 1.8 million barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil from Russia in May, which would be a 10-month high, according to vessel-tracking data by Kpler. Indian refiners have increased buying activity for lighter Russian grades, such as ESPO, showed the Kpler data cited by Reuters. The strong Indian imports […]
Viridien has sold its Sercel Marlin™ Offshore Logistics management solution to Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) to enhance operational efficiency and safety across its Western offshore E&P operations in India. The sale includes a five-year contract to provide ONGC with dedicated on-premises Sercel software and support services.
Chinese demand also registered a decline in terms of LNG from state-run companies, with Bloomberg reporting that China re-exported over 280,000 tons of LNG in April to date, clocking in as the highest single-month re-export volume on record. The re-export volume represents nearly 8% of total imports for April.
Cairn Oil & Gas, part of Vedanta Group and India’s largest private oil and gas exploration and production company, has entered into a strategic alliance with TechnipFMC to accelerate the delivery of integrated subsea infrastructure for future deepwater projects in India.
The $1.3 billion project will likely replace hundreds of trucks that travel across the length and breadth of the country to move the fuel from refineries to bottling plants, raising the risk of accidents. A tanker overturned in Coimbatore last month, bringing the southern city to a partial halt. In December, 20 people were killed, 45 injured and three dozen vehicles damaged after a truck hit Indian Oil’s vehicle in the northwestern city of Jaipur.