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Trump sanctions fail to dent flow? India’s oil imports from Russia top cross 1 million barrels a day; show resilience

India’s imports of Russian oil are expected to cross 1 million barrels per day this December. (AI image) Donald Trump’s sanctions on Russian oil majors don’t seem to have deterred Indian refiners from procuring crude – though non-sanctioned – from Russia. India’s crude oil imports from Russia are showing resilience in December, days after Trump’s…

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Russian oil trade: Discounts soften impact of losing sanctioned barrels; Indian refiners ramp up non-sanctioned crude

US sanctions on Rosneft and Lukoil are having a softer financial impact on Indian refiners than initially feared, with wider discounts on Russian crude nearly offsetting the expected drop in volumes. Indian state-owned and private refiners have halted cargoes from the two sanctioned firms and are instead sourcing from non-sanctioned suppliers. Recent tenders for January…

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Trump sanctions impact: Reliance, India’s biggest importer of Russian oil, buys millions of barrels of crude from Middle East, US

​ RIL, which has been the largest importer of Russian oil by volume in this year, has bought millions of barrels of crude from the US and Middle East . (AI image)​ In what is being seen as a direct impact of Donald Trump’s sanctions on two major Russian oil firms, Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL)…

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