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Louisiana Light • 2 days | 86.60 | -0.08 | -0.09% | ||
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Bonny Light • 2 days | 88.73 | -1.64 | -1.81% | ||
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Opec Basket • 2 days | 87.35 | -2.29 | -2.55% | ||
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Mars US • 168 days | 77.67 | -1.57 | -1.98% | ||
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Gasoline • 20 mins | 2.710 | -0.003 | -0.13% |
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Bonny Light • 2 days | 88.73 | -1.64 | -1.81% | ||
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Girassol • 2 days | 89.30 | -1.63 | -1.79% | ||
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Opec Basket • 2 days | 87.35 | -2.29 | -2.55% |
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Peace Sour • 8 hours | 75.30 | -0.05 | -0.07% | ||
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Light Sour Blend • 8 hours | 78.35 | -0.05 | -0.06% | ||
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Syncrude Sweet Premium • 8 hours | 85.30 | -0.05 | -0.06% | ||
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Central Alberta • 8 hours | 75.70 | -0.05 | -0.07% |
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Eagle Ford • 2 days | 79.21 | +0.04 | +0.05% | ||
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Oklahoma Sweet • 2 days | 79.25 | +0.00 | +0.00% | ||
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Kansas Common • 3 days | 73.00 | -2.50 | -3.31% | ||
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Buena Vista • 3 days | 86.86 | -2.40 | -2.69% |
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India Explores Ditching Dollar Oil Trade With Russia, Iran, Venezuela
India discussed on Thursday the possibility of trading oil with Russia, Venezuela, and Iran either in Indian rupees or under a barter agreement, India’s The Economic Times reports, citing an unnamed official.
“The possibility of rupee/barter trade with countries from where India is buying crude oil such as Iran, Venezuela and Russia can be looked at,” the official told the Indian media outlet.
India’s Commerce, Industry, and Civil Aviation Minister, Suresh Prabhu, held a meeting on Thursday to discuss “stepping up domestic production of goods across key sectors, to increase domestic availability and promote economic growth and export capacity,” the ministry said in a statement.
According to the official, the attendees at the meeting also discussed the possibility of creating a rupee-yuan payment mechanism for trading with China, and discussed accepting “any country’s proposal that is willing to trade in euro and rupee.”
India’s idea to use rupees or a barter system in its oil trade with Russia, Iran, and Venezuela comes as U.S. sanctions on Iran draws near and are just over four weeks away. In addition, rallying oil prices and plunging Indian currency is further straining the finances and the oil import bill of the world’s third-biggest oil importer and Iran’s second-largest oil customer after China.
The rupee plummeted to an all-time low on Friday, breaching the 74 rupees per dollar mark.
Amid rising crude oil prices and resulting surge in fuel prices, India’s government introduced earlier this week fuel relief as prices at the pump continued to rise in lockstep with the rallying price of oil.
The move was made after consultation with local oil companies, which agreed to reduce prices by US$0.034 (2.5 rupees) per liter of gasoline and diesel, of which they will absorb US$0.014 (1 rupee) per liter of fuel, and the government will shoulder the rest by cutting excise duties on fuels.
By Tsvetana Paraskova for Oilprice.com
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There are many ways for India to bypass the US dollar and also reduce the cost of its crude oil imports. It can pay for its oil imports from Iran, Russia and Venezuela by barter trade agreements and currency swap agreements or by using the petro-yuan.
Currency swap agreements are already in use between China and Russia whilst barter trade agreements already exist between Russia and Iran, India and Iran and also Turkey with both Iran and Russia.
Dr Mamdouh G Salameh
International Oil Economist
Visiting Professor of Energy Economics at ESCP Europe Business School, London