INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
India has informed OPEC countries that increasing oil prices will hurt post-pandemic financial recoveryIndia, the world's third-largest
energy customer, has actually told Saudi Arabia and other OPEC nations that high oil prices will harm the nascent economic healing the world
is witnessing after the devastating pandemic and that they need to price oil at reasonable levels, a leading authorities stated on
Monday.Petrol and diesel rates have soared to tape highs across the nation after ruthless cost increases because early May.India, which
imports practically two-thirds of its oil needs from West Asia, has actually informed crude oil producers, including the Organisation of
Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), that high oil rates will accelerate the transition to alternate fuels and such rates will be
counter-productive for the producers, the authorities said
Oil rates have to strike a balance between the interests of the manufacturers and customers
Now they are really high since the demand is more than the supplies, the official, who wished not to be called, said.International oil
costs had actually crashed to $19 per barrel in April last year as demand vaporized with a lot of countries securing lockdowns to manage the
The need recovered this year as vaccination against the infection restored economies world over.International criteria Brent crude has
actually considering that rallied to $85.67 per barrel.Petroleum Minister Hardeep Singh Puri has in current weeks flagged the concern of
high oil prices to Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Kuwait, Qatar, the US, Russia and Bahrain, the main said.Mr Puri, in his conferences with the
Secretary-General of OPEC and his equivalents in Saudi Arabia and other countries, conveyed India's serious issues over crude oil rate
volatility.He conveyed India's strong preference for responsible and sensible prices which is equally helpful for customers and
manufacturers, the main said.India is once again most likely to raise the concern of high oil prices when international leaders fulfill for
the India Energy Forum by CERAWeek later today
Saudi and UAE oil ministers besides the OPEC secretary-general are expected to participate in the conference.
