{"id":35596,"date":"2018-06-29T11:39:18","date_gmt":"2018-06-29T11:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=35596"},"modified":"2018-06-29T11:39:18","modified_gmt":"2018-06-29T11:39:18","slug":"will-source-crude-on-own-terms-dharmendra-pradhan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/will-source-crude-on-own-terms-dharmendra-pradhan\/","title":{"rendered":"Will source crude on own terms: Dharmendra Pradhan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Avoiding any direct reference to US President Donald Trump\u2019s call to all nations to stop crude oil imports from Iran, petroleum minister Dharmendra Pradhan said on Thursday that India has kept all options open to secure crude from any country of its choice at competitive rates and \u201con own terms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the last two years, India\u2019s position has become so strong that no producing country can ignore our requirement and expectations. My interest is paramount to me and I will take crude from whoever I want, depending on my needs and geopolitical situation. We will get crude from wherever we want\u201d Pradhan said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are a very stable market, a mature democracy and have a visionary leadership. We will go by our interests,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Pradhan said India is also working towards restrategising its energy mix by reducing dependency on imports and development of new models to increase production from domestic hydrocarbon fields.<\/p>\n<p>Iran is India\u2019s third-largest supplier of crude oil behind Iraq and Saudi Arabia. Iran supplied 18.4 million tonne of crude oil in the first 10 months during April 2017 and January 2018.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Avoiding any direct reference to US President Donald Trump\u2019s call to all nations to stop crude oil imports from Iran, petroleum minister Dharmendra Pradhan said on Thursday that India has kept all options open to secure crude from any country of its choice at competitive rates and \u201con own terms.\u201d \u201cIn the last two years, [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35597,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[410],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35598,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35596\/revisions\/35598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}