TNPSC Thervupettagam

First Ship of Crude Oil    

April 17 , 2020 1556 days 823 0
  • The first crude oil of 1 million barrels from UAE have reached India.
  • India has an emergency storage of 5.33 million tonnes.
  • This would suffice the oil demands of the country for 9.5 days
  • The oil reserves are stored in Mangalore, Padur and Vishkhapatnam. 
  • The Padur oil storage is the biggest of all the three storages.
  • India imports 83% of its oil.
  • Iraq is India’s largest crude oil supplier meeting one-fourth of the country’s needs.
  • Following Iraq, Saudi Arabia is the second largest oil supplier of India.
  • USA is the sixth largest oil supplier of India. 

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