On Wednesday, June 8, 2022 at 2:52:27 PM UTC+8, A. Filip wrote:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-60783874
2022-06-07T11:25:06.000Z
Ukraine crisis: Why India is buying more Russian oil
[…] While the exact price of the sales made to India is unknown, "the discount of Urals to Brent crude [the global benchmark] remains at
around $30 per barrel", says Matt Smith, an analyst at Kpler.
These two types of crude normally sell at a similar price. […]
Foreign Minister S Jaishankar said recently that because of sanctions
on other major producers such as Iran and Venezuela, Western countries
had "squeezed every other source of oil we have."
India has also denied recent reports that Russian crude imported by
India was being shipped on as refined products to other countries, including the US.
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India has coal and hence they used coals for production of electricity. Coal costs nothing to India because it is free as it is their own resources. They do not need to pay for imports like oil. They will buy some oil to meet the local needs and
requirement like engine oil, gasoline, kerosene, for their own consumer usage only.
India has millions of cheap labor and therefore, the country can spend little taxpayer money to pay local employment to mine for coals instead. Digging for coals in coal mines does not need skill set. All they need hard work and not skill labor. In
modern oil refinery of refining higher yield oil products, India required higher skill set of labor than coal labor.
India does not have enough of storage tank capacity to increase its storage capacity. It needs time and investor money to build huge storage tanks. When in excess of crude oil needs, it is possible that India hires ship owners to ship for them of crude
oil from Russia.
The ship owners will then ship their purchased of crude oil directly to US and EU instead. India can simply make a huge tidy profit without doing anything from their sales of surplus crude oil that were purchased and shipped by their contractors from
Russia. They just changed hand only and they can make a tidy profit from it. Henceforth, Russia should see that India does not purchase more than they normally needs in stock of crude oil.
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