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Actually, America, Europe and other countries have imposed many tough sanctions against Russia. The aim of these countries was to bring Russia to its knees through sanctions. Not only this, western countries also put a price cap on Russian oil. According to the New York Times report, this cheap oil has now found a new market like India, which is now buying 2 million barrels of oil per day from Russia. According to the report of the International Energy Agency, it accounts for 45 percent of India’s total oil imports. Not only did it strengthen India’s economy, but Russia’s cheap oil also gave India a very profitable oil refining business.
India is getting very cheap Russian oil
According to the report, this refined oil was in dire need in other parts of the world. This included the European Union which had banned buying oil directly from Russia. PM Modi has taken a neutral stand in the Russia-Ukraine war. The issue of Russia has come up in the meeting with US President Joe Biden. The US is trying to reduce India’s ties with Russia, which include defense and energy. India has not yet given it special attention. In just one year, India, which used to buy very little Russian oil, now buys half of Russian oil shipped by sea.
Russia is the third largest oil producing country in the world. Some of Russia’s oil is sent by pipeline. Its destination cannot be changed easily. But tankers oil can be easily sent from one place to another. It is going to China and India, which bought 80 per cent of the oil shipped by sea in May. India has taken advantage of this situation in the midst of falling oil prices. India is now getting Russian oil easily at a cheaper rate which earlier used to buy more oil from Gulf countries. The report says that India is getting Russian oil at $51 per barrel.
Indian companies are exporting oil to Europe
According to the report, it is saving billions of dollars. India is refining cheap oil from Russia and then exporting it to Europe at market rate. Indian companies are also benefiting a lot from this. According to the rules of Europe, taking oil from another country and exporting it is not illegal. In such a situation, European countries are not able to do anything even if they want to. Due to this India’s foreign exchange reserves are also increasing.
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