India is not "profiteering" from Russian oil imports and its purchases have stabilised markets while keeping prices from rising to as much as $200 a barrel, Hardeep Singh Puri, country's oil minister, said in the Hindu newspaper on Monday.
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Iran plans to raise its refining capacity by 180,000 barrels per day (bpd) by the end of the current Iranian year in March 2026 and bring three major fuel quality projects online, the head of the National Iranian Oil Refining and Distribution Company (NIORDC) said.
Iran Gas Transmission Company stably supplied 260 billion cubic meters of natural gas across the country in the 12-month period from September 2024 to August 2025, the company's managing director announced.
The managing director of Petropars said plans are underway to begin gas production from the second platform of Phase 11 in the South Pars gas field by fall 2027.
Iran plans to expand its renewable energy capacity to 7,000 megawatts by the next Iranian calendar year (begins late March 2026), up from current levels, an energy official said.
The National Iranian Oil Company aims to boost daily gas production to 1.35 billion cubic meters by the end of the country’s Seventh Development Plan (2024-28), the company’s chief said Saturday.
New Delhi has called the targeting of India over the purchase of Russian oil “unjustified and unreasonable” and said these imports began as its traditional supplies were diverted to Europe, with the US having “actively encouraged such imports by India for strengthening global energy markets stability”.
Iran supplied more than 22 billion liters of liquid fuel to power plants in the Iranian year 1403 (March 2024–March 2025), a 40 percent increase from the previous year, the Oil Ministry said.
The Pars Oil and Gas Company announced plans to complete and bring into production new wells under its South Pars infield drilling program, aiming to raise daily gas output from the shared field by more than 15 million cubic meters by the end of the year.
Brent crude futures fell 39 cents, or 0.6 percent, to $68.23, while West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures fell 39 cents, or 0.6 percent, to $64.21.
Russian oil exports to India are set to rise in September, dealers said, as New Delhi defies U.S. punitive tariffs designed to force the country to stop the trade and push Moscow towards a peace deal with Ukraine.
Turkey's energy imports increased in June due to increased household and industrial demand, with natural gas inflows rising 36.9% and oil and petroleum product imports rising 5.9%.
Brent crude futures fell 50 cents, or 0.73 percent, to $67.55, while West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures fell 51 cents, or 0.80 percent, to $63.64.
Adnoc Gas has signed a 15-year sales and purchase deal to supply liquefied natural gas to the state-backed Indian Oil Corporation, amid growing energy demand in India and an aim to improve its energy security.
Azerbaijan has reached an agreement to extend the delivery of natural gas to the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic through Iranian territory.
Iran exported non-oil commodities valued at $603 million to Pakistan during the first four months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21-July 22), according to the head of the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration (IRICA).
Brent crude futures fell 9 cents to $67.13 a barrel, while West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures fell 8 cents to $63.17.
India saved billions of dollars by stepping up imports of discounted Russian oil in the wake of the war in Ukraine, but punitive tariffs imposed by the U.S. that came into effect on Wednesday will quickly undo the gains, with no easy solutions in sight.
Russia's fuel oil shipments went mostly to Saudi Arabia and India in July as Asia and the Middle East remain the key outlets for Moscow's fuel oil and vacuum gasoil (VGO) amid import bans and embargoes in the West.
Iran’s exports to Africa rose 2.2 times in the first four months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21- July 22), the head of the Africa Office at the Trade Promotion Organization (TPO) announced.