United States Surpasses Kuwait as India’s 6th biggest oil supplier; Iraq remains on top

According to data furnished by the oil ministry to parliamentary committee, United States has surpassed Kuwait to become India’s sixth largest oil supplier.
US supplied 5.4 million tonnes of crude oil to India during the first six months of 2019-20 (April-September).
This is 70 percent more as compared to about 3.1 million tonnes of oil sourced from the US in the same period a year back.
Iraq continues to be top crude oil supplier of India with 26 million tonnes of crude oil supplied during April to September, meeting India’s one-fourth oil need alone.
India bought 111.4 million tonnes of crude oil from overseas during April-September of 2019-20.
India is the world’s third largest energy consumer and is 83 percent dependent on imports to meet its oil needs.