Russian envoy to India Denis Alipov on Thursday held a meeting with Pankaj Jain, Secretary, Indian Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas and discussed the cooperation of the two nations in the energy sector.
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The Centre added that Indian Oil & Gas Public Sector Undertakings have imported less than 1 per cent of their total crude oil import from Russia in the year 2021-2022 (till January).
Oil minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Monday allayed fears of short supply of crude oil amid the Russia-Ukraine conflict and said that crude oil imports from Russia are miniscule at just 0.2 per cent of total such imports till January this fiscal.