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India's oil reforms to blunt US and European Union supply coercion
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India's energy security will get a leg up amid US President Donald Trump's tariff rumbles as the government hopes to finalise by September major reforms in the oil and gas sector, a senior government official said.
These measures are expected to help the government deal with geopolitical pressures inflicted by countries like the US by squeezing supplies of oil via coercive methods or from armed conflicts in West Asia that block key passageways like the Suez Canal or the Strait of Hormuz through which India receives most of its oil and gas.
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