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Louisiana Light • 4 days | 83.76 | +0.29 | +0.35% | ||
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Bonny Light • 3 days | 84.11 | -0.31 | -0.37% | ||
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Opec Basket • 4 days | 84.30 | +0.70 | +0.84% | ||
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Mars US • 191 days | 77.26 | -1.51 | -1.92% | ||
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Gasoline • 11 mins | 2.500 | +0.000 | +0.02% |
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Bonny Light • 3 days | 84.11 | -0.31 | -0.37% | ||
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Girassol • 3 days | 85.07 | -0.23 | -0.27% | ||
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Opec Basket • 4 days | 84.30 | +0.70 | +0.84% |
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Peace Sour • 3 days | 72.46 | +0.27 | +0.37% | ||
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Light Sour Blend • 3 days | 75.51 | +0.27 | +0.36% | ||
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Syncrude Sweet Premium • 3 days | 82.46 | +0.27 | +0.33% | ||
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Central Alberta • 3 days | 72.86 | +0.27 | +0.37% |
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Eagle Ford • 4 days | 75.74 | +0.27 | +0.36% | ||
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Oklahoma Sweet • 4 days | 75.75 | +0.25 | +0.33% | ||
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Kansas Common • 4 days | 69.50 | +0.25 | +0.36% | ||
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Buena Vista • 4 days | 83.77 | +0.27 | +0.32% |
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India’s Oil Imports From Russia Surged 80% In September
Imports of Russian crude oil to India last month posted a substantial increase of 80% on the year, after a dip over the summer.
Citing data from Vortexa, Indian media reported the subcontinent had taken in an average of 1.56 million barrels daily of Urals crude in September, up from 865,000 bpd a year ago. Compared with August, the September import rate was 8% higher.
According to Kpler data, total crude oil imports into India from Russia in September stood at 1.8 million barrels daily, which compared with 977,000 barrels daily a year ago.
“Indian refiners have been tacitly lamenting about Urals trading at -$4 per barrel to Brent on a delivered basis, however given the robust pull on Russian crude from China, the differentials on Russian barrels will not be coming down anytime soon. Urals at that price is still $6 a barrel lower than anything term-supplied from the Middle East,” Kpler’s lead crude analyst Viktor Katona said.
LSEG, meanwhile, estimated the average Indian intake of Russian crude for last month at 1.55 million bpd, estimating it represented a 16% increase on August.
Indian refiners also imported more crude from Iraq, with shipments from OPEC’s second-largest producer in September up by 17% to 1.1 million barrels daily, Reuters reported.
At the same time, oil shipments from Saudi Arabia declined last month, to 676,000 bpd, which was 10% lower than the average for August.
Kpler’s Katona has forecast that crude oil imports from Russia could rise further in the coming months after the maintenance season ends at the end of this month. This suggests that even at elevated prices, Russian crude remains affordable for Indian refiners, unlike Saudi crude, whose price has been affected by Riyadh’s voluntary production cuts.
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“I think India will stick to its September levels of buying further on, importing 1.8-1.9 million barrels a day,” Katona India’s Financial Express.
By Charles Kennedy for Oilprice.com
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Russia is now the mail crude supplier to China and India both of whom account now for 80% of total Russian crude exports.
This means that Western sanctions against Russia, bans against its crude oil and petroleum products have failed miserably and are being ignored by the a majority of countries of the world. As for the Western price cap on Russian export prices, this has been dead and buried for a whole.
Moreover, Russia has won the energy war with the West hands down and have found new markets to its energy exports.
Dr Mamdouh G Salameh
International Oil Economist
Global Energy Expert