NEW DELHI: India’s oil imports in August rose 4.4 percent from a year ago and 0.9 percent from July to around 4.3 million barrels a day, according to trade sources and ship-tracking data compiled by Thomson Reuters Supply Chain & Commodities Research.
India’s oil imports from Iran rose 10 percent in August compared with July, with the OPEC producer emerging as the third-biggest oil supplier to the South Asian nation, improving its ranking by a notch from July. August oil imports from Latin America declined 34 percent from a year ago, while Middle East shipments rose by 29 percent. Shipments from Africa declined by 30 percent.
The following table shows India’s crude imports by country according to tanker arrival information. The imports include condensate. Volumes are in ‘000 bpd.
