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India’s Refineries Run at Up to 108% as Diesel Demand Surges

Oilprice.com Trade press Published 9th September 2026 Global

What the source reported

Source-reported

India’s refineries have been running at 105% to 108% capacity utilization in the past six months as demand for diesel soars and international fuel markets tighten amid the ongoing Middle East crisis. Refinery capacity utilization in the world’s third-largest crude oil importer has been between 105% and 108% since the war began, a senior executive at Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited (MRPL) said at the APPEC petroleum conference in Singapore on Wednesday.   “Most of our refiners are complex, ‌can take a wide…

Publication
Oilprice.com · Trade Publication
Published
9th September 2026
Original report
oilprice.com

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What ProcIntel recorded

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Category
Commodities & Input Costs
Geography
Global
Organisations
None identified
Collected
9th September 2026 · 11:55

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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Significance 3 · Material
Confidence 2 · Low

Initial Significance Material (49.0/100). Strongest contributor: Procurement Impact (27.0/30 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).

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Procurement Impact
Limiting factor
Likely Event Severity