India’s fuel demand jumped by 13 percent in the first two weeks of June, for a first monthly rise since March, suggesting that the worst of the impact of the second COVID wave has peaked and consumption is rebounding. Sales of diesel, the most used road fuel in the world’s …
Read More »Total to Supply LNG to India’s Steel Industry
Steel giant ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel (AMNS) has signed with France’s Total for the supply of up to 500,000 tons of liquefied natural gas (LNG) per year to run its steel and power plants located in Hazira, Gujarat state. The LNG will be sourced from Total’s global portfolio and offloaded either …
Read More »India still Interested in Farzad B Gas Field as Refineries Eye Iran Crude
India is still hopeful it can participate in the Farzad B natural gas field development in the Persian Gulf after Iran decided to go ahead with the project without foreign participation, oil ministry officials told S&P Global Platts on May 23. With US and Iran talks progressing to end sanctions …
Read More »India’s Oil Demand Shrinks Further as Covid Crisis Persists
Sales of road transport fuels during May 1-15 dropped by a fifth from the previous month, according to people familiar with preliminary data from the country’s three biggest retailers India’s oil demand worsened in the first half of May as large parts of the nation remained under local lockdowns to …
Read More »Iran to Develop Offshore Farzad B Gas Field without India
The National Iranian Oil Co. is set to sign a $1.78 billion deal with a domestic company to develop the Farzad B gas field in the Persian Gulf, oil ministry news service Shana reported May 16. Petropars, Iran’s leading general contractor, will ink a buyback deal with NIOC on May …
Read More »US Partnered with India as PM Modi Made Commitment to Deploy 450 GW Renewable Energy
The United States has partnered with India on climate change so as to help it meet its commitment to deploy 450 gigawatts (GW) of renewable energy, the Biden administration’s climate change envoy has told US lawmakers. “Prime Minister (Narendra) Modi has made a commitment to deploy 450 GW of renewable …
Read More »OPEC Expects Global Economic Growth to Sustain Oil Demand but Sees India’s Energy Needs Collapsing
OPEC left its global oil demand forecast for 2021 unchanged in its monthly outlook report, due to an economic rebound in the second half of the year but the bloc sees energy consumption in India, the world’s third-biggest consumer of oil, collapsing because of the surge in Covid-19 infections. The …
Read More »India Ramps Up Oil Imports from Saudi Arabia after Price Cut
India’s state-owned refiners are ordering their regular volumes of Saudi crude oil for June after the Kingdom reduced its prices, Reuters has reported, citing unnamed sources familiar with the situation. Saudi Arabia cut its official selling price for Asian clients earlier this month by between $0.10 and $0.30 in response …
Read More »OPEC’s Share of Indian Oil Imports Plunges to Two Decade Low
OPEC’s share of India’s oil imports fell to the lowest in at least two decades in the year to the end of March as overall purchases by Asia’s third largest economy fell to a six-year low, data obtained from industry and trade sources showed. Total crude imports by the world’s …
Read More »Covid Lockdowns in India and Japan Slow LNG Momentum
Just as liquefied natural gas (LNG) spot markets in the Asia Pacific were gaining momentum, headwinds from the Covid-19 pandemic are again causing problems for suppliers of the super-cooled fuel. The trouble for markets comes with the dramatic coronavirus surge in India. It has a knock-on effect of curbing power …
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