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Amid the ongoing West Asia conflict, a elder Oil Ministry authoritative connected Wednesday (March 11, 2026) said that determination is nary request for panic booking of LPG cylinders, and that the mean transportation rhythm of two-and-a-half days is being maintained.
LPG situation updates connected March 11, 2026
India's crude lipid supplies stay secure, Sujata Sharma, Joint Secretary successful the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, told reporters astatine a briefing.
Crude lipid is being sourced from non-Strait of Hormuz routes, she said.
Government measures person led to a 25% emergence successful LPG production, according to the Ministry.
She said that determination is nary request for panic booking of cooking state cylinders and assured that the mean transportation rhythm for home households remains astatine two-and-a-half days.
"Feedback suggests that immoderate panic booking and hoarding behaviour by miss-information. I privation to clarify that our mean present rhythm for home LPG remains astir two-and-a-half days, truthful I request...there is nary request for customers to rush-book the cylinders... determination is nary request for panic booking," she said.
State governments person been asked to instrumentality preventive actions to forestall hoarding and achromatic selling of fuel, according to the Ministry.
"India's crude proviso remains secure. Our regular depletion is astir 55 lakh barrels...through diversified procurement, the volumes we person secured contiguous transcend what would usually person arrived done the Strait of Hormuz during this period," she said.
India imports crude from astir 40 countries.
The lipid selling companies person secured assorted crude cargoes from antithetic sources, and arsenic a effect of this diversification, astir 70% of India's crude imports are present coming from routes extracurricular the Strait of Hormuz, compared with astir 55% earlier, she added.
"As I talk to you today, astir 2 LNG cargoes are headed for India, and they volition get wrong a fewer days, which volition further fortify the crude proviso presumption successful the country," Ms. Sharma said.
