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India Remains Dependent on Imports for 90% of Oil Demand

Oilprice.com Trade press Published 7th August 2026 Global

What the source reported

Source-reported

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…

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Oilprice.com · Trade Publication
Published
7th August 2026
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oilprice.com

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Commodities & Input Costs
Geography
Global
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7th August 2026 · 12:32

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 (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).

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Procurement Impact
Limiting factor
Likely Event Severity
Possibly the same underlying story as India cuts energy import dependence to 42%, oil imports still meet 90% of demand: CII-EY — flagged automatically, never merged automatically.