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China Is Key to Displaced Russian Oil’s Impact on Global Prices

Bloomberg.com · last updated

Washington’s efforts to choke Russian oil flows to India are raising the question of what will happen to the millions of barrels a day that would otherwise have been headed to the subcontinent.

India’s state-owned refiners appear to be pulling back from spot purchases in the absence of official guidance from New Delhi, although what private processors will do is unclear. That potentially leaves a lot of oil — Russia sent about 1.7 million barrels a day to the South Asian nation last month — looking for a new home.