New Delhi, Feb. 11 -- Speaking at the India Energy Week 2025, Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas Hardeep Singh Puri on Tuesday stated that there are "no expectations" that oil purchases from Russia will decrease as India is open to energy imports from all sources at the lowest rates.

On being asked if are you expecting that purchases of oil from Russia will decrease, Puri says, "No there's no such expectation. All purchases from whichever source are price sensitive and price dependent, I've said on many occasions that we float tenders at the point of importation. For instance, we float a tender that at a particular point, let's say one of the ports, we need this quality of route that anybody can tender prices.

"The quantities ...