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India’s Top State Refiner to Reduce Middle East Term Oil Purchases

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Indian Oil Corporation, India's largest state-owned refiner, reportedly plans to slightly reduce the volumes of Middle East crude oil it buys through annual term contracts in the fiscal year beginning next March. The change was described by an anonymous source cited in the report, who linked the…

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