Signal · Commodities & Input Costs
China Is Squeezing India Out of Russia’s Oil Trade
What the source reported
Source-reportedChina is buying more Russian oil to replace missing Iranian barrels. The problem for India is that some of those Russian barrels used to be its barrels. China’s seaborne imports of Russian crude are estimated at 1.25 million barrels per day in August, according to Kpler data, cited by Reuters. That is down from 1.423 million bpd in July, but July and August are still China’s strongest months for Russian seaborne crude since April. The shift comes as Chinese imports of Iranian oil remain crushed by the Middle East war and U.S. blockade.…
- Publication
- Oilprice.com · Trade Publication
- Published
- 20th August 2026
- Original report
- oilprice.com
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What ProcIntel recorded
ProcIntel-derived- Category
- Commodities & Input Costs
- Geography
- Global
- Organisations
- None identified
- Collected
- 20th August 2026 · 20:49
Initial assessment ProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.
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Initial Significance Moderate (24.0/100). Strongest contributor: Geographic Breadth (10.0/10 points). Limiting factor: Likely Event Severity (3.0/30 points). Initial Confidence Low (31.5/100, data sufficiency: Partial). Strongest contributor: Source Authority (20.0/40 points). Limiting factor: Corroboration (2.5/25 points).
- Strongest contributor
- Geographic Breadth
- Limiting factor
- Likely Event Severity