India looking to buy oil from US amid Strait of Hormuz crisis: analyst

Published May 23, 2026 Updated May 23, 2026 03:12pm

Sumit Ritolia, lead energy analyst at business analytics platform Kpler, tells Al Jazeera that India is looking to buy more oil from the United States amid the Strait of Hormuz crisis.

He said the US “has the capacity to increase oil and gas exports to India, but it’s not enough to replace Middle East supplies”.

Ritolia added that India’s Russian oil exports have also increased in volume.

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