New Delhi, Nov. 17 -- Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas Hardeep Singh Puri announced on Monday that Indian public sector oil companies have signed a one-year agreement to import liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) from the United States for the first time.

In a post on the social media platform X, the minister wrote, "A historic first! One of the largest and the world's fastest-growing LPG market opens up to the United States. In our endeavour to provide secure, affordable supplies of LPG to the people of India, we have been diversifying our LPG sourcing. In a significant development, Indian PSU oil companies have successfully concluded a 1-year deal for imports of around 2.2 MTPA LPG."

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