Indian Reliance to Halt Crude Imports from Rosneft After U.S. Sanctions

The U.S. sanctions on the top Russian oil firms are reverberating through markets with Russia’s main crude buyers as India’s Reliance Industries will stop importing crude under a long-term deal with the now-sanctioned Russian oil giant Rosneft, sources with direct knowledge of the plans told Reuters on Thursday. Reliance, India’s top private refiner which operates the world’s biggest refinery complex at Jamnagar with 1.4 million barrels per day (bpd) of processing capacity, has a long-term deal with Rosneft to buy…