{"id":9587,"date":"2026-04-06T14:55:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T14:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=9587"},"modified":"2026-04-06T14:55:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T14:55:03","slug":"130063768-cms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=9587","title":{"rendered":"Reliance Industries unit loading 2 million barrels of Venezuelan crude oil: Report &#8211; The Times of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-130064049,imgsize-480240,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/article-3.jpg\" alt=\"Reliance Industries unit loading 2 million barrels of Venezuelan crude oil: Report\" title=\"Representative image\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>A unit of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/reliance-industries\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Reliance Industries<\/a> has reportedly started loading a 2-million-barrel shipment of Venezuelan crude. The oil has directly procured from state-run oil firm Petr\u00f3leos de Venezuela, SA (PDVSA), according to a company document and shipping data on Monday, cited by Reuters.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/>Reliance Industries secured a US general licence in February 2026, following an application in early January, allowing it to directly purchase, export and refine Venezuelan crude without breaching sanctions. The approval came amid a broader easing of restrictions on Venezuela\u2019s energy sector by the administration of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/donald-trump\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Donald Trump<\/a>.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"8\"\/> The move is expected to help Reliance diversify its crude sourcing, potentially replacing some Russian supplies with discounted Venezuelan heavy oil, while supporting renewed oil flows from Caracas.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/business\/india-business\/reliance-industries-unit-loading-2-million-barrels-of-venezuela-crude-oil-report\/articleshow\/130063768.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A unit of Reliance Industries has reportedly started loading a 2-million-barrel shipment of Venezuelan crude&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[967,24022,24020,6591,24021,24019],"class_list":["post-9587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-donald-trump","tag-oil-shipments","tag-petroleos-de-venezuela","tag-reliance-industries","tag-sanctions","tag-venezuelan-crude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}