India Pushes Refiners To Boost LPG Output

India's government has urged local refiners to increase production of liquefied petroleum gas—the country's main cooking fuel, amid the supply crunch resulting from the war in the Middle East. Bloomberg reported today that India's production of LPG since February 28th had gone up by 25% to 46,000 tons per day. Local output is on course to rise further to 50,000 tons daily after Nayara Energy's refinery restarts after seasonal maintenance next month. A separate report, meanwhile, suggested refiners will be losing money on the crank-up of LPG…