{"id":16815,"date":"2026-02-09T07:32:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T07:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/?p=16815"},"modified":"2026-02-09T07:32:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T07:32:37","slug":"indian-oil-buys-six-million-barrels-crude-from-west-africa-mideast-traders-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/16815\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Oil buys six million barrels crude from West Africa &#038; Mideast, traders say"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\" itemprop=\"description\"><p><span class=\"pre-content-text\"><a style=\"color: #0038a8;\" href=\"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/\">RoydadNaft &#8211; <\/a><\/span>\u00a0 Indian Oil \u200dCorp bought six million barrels of crude from \u2060West Africa and the Middle East, traders said, as the Asian country steered clear \u200cof Russian \u200coil in New Delhi&#8217;s push for \u200ca trade deal with Washington.<br data-reader-unique-id=\"1\" \/><br data-reader-unique-id=\"2\" \/>Indian refiners are not taking March-April Russian crude offers, and are expected to stay away from such trades for longer, refining and trade sources said.<br data-reader-unique-id=\"9\" \/><br data-reader-unique-id=\"10\" \/>IOC bought \u200cAngola&#8217;s \u200dPazflor crude and Nigeria&#8217;s \u200dAgbami crude from Totsa, the trading arm \u200cof TotalEnergies. It also bought Nigeria&#8217;s Akpo and Bonny Light crude from Shell, two of the traders said.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, it purchased two millon barrels from Mercuria, the \u200dUpper Zakum crude produced in the United Arab Emirates. \u200dThe purchases \u2060were done \u2060via tenders issued last week and for April-delivery, they added.<br data-reader-unique-id=\"29\" \/><br data-reader-unique-id=\"30\" \/>Indian companies and traders do not comment on spot tenders due to a confidentiality clause.<\/p>\n<section data-reader-unique-id=\"14\"><\/section>\n<div class=\"post-date no-social-btn post-updated\">Updated on<time class=\"updated dt-updated\" itemprop=\"dateModified\" datetime=\"2026-02-09T07:32:37+00:00\"> 9 February 2026<\/time><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indian Oil \u200dCorp bought six million barrels of crude from \u2060West Africa and the Middle East, traders said, as the Asian country steered clear \u200cof Russian \u200coil in New Delhi&#8217;s push for \u200ca trade deal with Washington.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[47,46,36,19,16,35],"tags":[],"services":[],"class_list":["post-16815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-international","category-lastnews","category-news","category-oil","category-topnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16815"},{"taxonomy":"services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/services?post=16815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}