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India imports 49 bn euro worth of Russian oil in 3rd year of Ukraine invasion

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..... India imports 49 bn euro worth of Russian oil in 3rd year of Ukraine invasion
PTI News
Dated:- 25-2-2025
PTI
New Delhi, Feb 25 (PTI) India, the world's third largest oil consuming and importing nation, bought crude oil worth 49 billion euros from Russia in the third year of Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, a global think tank said. India, which has traditionally sourced its oil from the .....

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..... Middle East, began importing a large volume of oil from Russia soon after the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. This is primarily because Russian oil was available at a significant discount to other international benchmarks due to western sanctions and some European countries shunning purchases. This led to India's imports of Russian oil seeing a dramatic rise, growing from less than 1 per .....

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..... cent of its total crude oil imports to a staggering 40 per cent in a short period. "Russia's stronghold over new markets has solidified in the third year of the invasion. The three biggest buyers, China (EUR 78 billion), India (EUR 49 billion) and Turkey (EUR 34 billion) were responsible for 74 per cent of Russia's total revenues from fossil fuels in the third year of the invasion," Centre for R .....

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..... esearch on Energy and Clean Air said in its latest report. The value of India's import saw an 8 per cent year-on-year increase, it said. Russia's total global fossil fuel earnings in the third year of the invasion reached 242 billion euro and have totalled 847 billion euro since the invasion of Ukraine. Some of the refineries in India turned Russian crude oil into fuels like petrol and diese .....

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..... l that were exported to Europe and other G7 countries. "In the third year of the invasion, G7+ countries imported EUR 18 billion of oil products from six refineries in India and Turkey that process Russian crude. An estimated EUR 9 billion of this was refined from Russian crude," the CREA report said. In the first three quarters of 2024, as refineries in India and Turkey increased their consum .....

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..... ption of Russian crude, the volume of Russian crude used to create products for G7+ countries jumped by an estimated 10 per cent. Concurrently, this also contributed to a rise in the price of Russian oil, boosting the value of the crude used for these exports by an estimated 25 per cent, it said. The EU is the biggest importer of oil products from India's and Turkey's refineries. On average, 13 .....

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..... per cent of these refineries' total production is targeted towards exports for the bloc in the third year of the invasion. The top-five importers within the EU were the Netherlands (3.3 billion euro), France (1.4 billion euro), Romania (1.2 billion euro), Spain (1.1 billion euro), and Italy (949 million euro). The single-biggest buyer was Australia, whose imports from these refineries totalled 3 .....

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..... .38 billion euro in the third year of the invasion. In the third year of the invasion, 23 per cent of the oil transshipped in EU waters was destined for China, 11 per cent for India, 10 per cent for South Korea, and 2 per cent for Turkey, with the remainder distributed among other markets. "CREA's data shows that from February to September 2024, 331 shipments arriving in India's Sikka port (in .....

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..... Gujarat) averaged USD 90.8 per barrel," it said. In this period, 65 per cent of the tankers were subject to the cap. "Applying the price cap to cost, insurance and freight (CIF) price would have cut Russia's crude export revenues by 34 per cent -- about 5.8 billion in 2024," it said. When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, it triggered a series of sanctions from the US, the European U .....

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..... nion, and other western nations, aimed at crippling Russia's economy. One of the main sanctions was on Russian oil exports, which significantly impacted Russia's ability to sell oil to European markets. As a result, Russia began offering crude oil at heavily discounted prices in an attempt to find new buyers for its oil. India, with its large energy needs and an economy sensitive to oil price fl .....

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..... uctuations, found this offer too attractive to ignore. The price discount on Russian oil, sometimes as much as USD 18-20 per barrel lower than the market price of other oil, allowed India to procure oil at a much cheaper rate. The discounts have, however, shrunk in recent times to less than USD 3 a barrel. PTI ANZ DR TRB
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