India Remains Dependent on Imports for 90% of Oil Demand
- Source
- Oilprice.com
- Source link
- https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/India-Remains-Dependent-on-Imports-for-90-of-Oil-Demand.html
- Published
- 2026-08-07 12:00:00
- Discovered by ProcIntel
- 2026-08-07 12:32:06
- Category
- Commodities & Raw Materials
- Geography
- Global
- Organisations
- —
- Review status
- Pending
- Record type
- REAL
Summary
Despite a decline in dependence on primary energy imports, India remains highly dependent, at a massive 90%, on crude oil imports for its consumption, a new industry report has shown. India’s dependence on primary energy imports fell to 42% in the financial year 2025 from 47% in FY 2017, according to a joint report by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and EY. However, India remains highly dependent on crude oil imports, with 90% of all demand met by purchases from overseas, the report noted. “Overall primary energy import dependence…
Procurement Relevance Gate
- commodity_or_input_impact (weight 12) — matched on "oil"
- price_availability_leadtime_demand (weight 10) — matched on "demand"
- geographic_exposure (weight 8) — matched on "1 linked geography"
Initial Signal Assessment ProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.
A provisional, automatically-computed reading of this individual Signal, before Event extraction or human review. Not a final rating.
- Initial Significance
- 2 · Moderate (28.0/100)
- Initial Confidence
- 3 · Moderate (46.5/100)
- Data sufficiency Whether enough structured evidence exists to trust this Signal's Initial Confidence reading. 'Sufficient' has no cap; 'Partial' and 'Insufficient' cap Confidence until more evidence is available; 'Not Assessed' means the Signal did not pass the Relevance Gate.
- Partial
- Strongest contributor
- Procurement Impact
- Limiting factor
- Likely Event Severity
Initial Significance Moderate (28.0/100). 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).
- No likely Event type matched; a low contextual baseline was applied.
- Entity Criticality data quality warning: all_linked_entities_data_insufficient.
- no matched Event type
- no actor entities (only attribution/metadata, if any)
- no actor content-derived geography
- Entities were mentioned as context or document attribution rather than as actors in the reported development, so they did not increase Initial Confidence.
- Geographies were mentioned only in diplomatic reaction, commentary or background context rather than as the actor, event location or affected party in the reported development, so they did not increase Initial Confidence.
- Only source-level geography metadata was available.
- Source metadata did not contribute to Initial Confidence.
Methodology signal_scoring_v1 — calculated 2026-08-12 11:24:08.