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India’s Imports of Russian Crude Hit New High in July

Oilprice.com Trade press Published 3rd August 2026 Global

What the source reported

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India keeps buying a lot of Russian oil, with July imports hitting a new all-time high and accounting for more than half of total Indian crude oil imports. India’s crude oil imports from Russia rose to 2.8 million barrels per day (bpd) in July, up from the previous high of 2.7 million bpd in June, for the highest average monthly volume ever, according to vessel-tracking data by Kpler cited by the Times of India on Monday.  Total Indian crude oil imports inched up slightly from June to stand at just over 5 million bpd in July, per the…

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Oilprice.com · Trade Publication
Published
3rd August 2026
Original report
oilprice.com

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Commodities & Input Costs
Geography
Global
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3rd August 2026 · 12:24

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 2 · Moderate
Confidence 3 · Moderate

Initial Significance Moderate (31.0/100). Strongest contributor: Procurement Impact (12.0/30 points). Limiting factor: Likely Event Severity (3.0/30 points). Initial Confidence Moderate (46.5/100, data sufficiency: Partial). Strongest contributor: Source Authority (20.0/40 points). Limiting factor: Extraction Quality (3.0/15 points).

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Procurement Impact
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Likely Event Severity
Possibly the same underlying story as India PV sales hit record high in July, up 34% on strong demand and GST cuts — flagged automatically, never merged automatically.