Subscribe to Newsletter to get latest insights & analysis in your inbox. Download the ETEnergyworld App and get the Realtime updates and Save your favourite articles. Located at Vadinar (Gujarat), Nayara, the country’s second-largest single-site refinery, specialises in processing heavy crude. Until the US sanctions were imposed, it was almost entirely dependent on Russian crude as feedstock.Analysts said with the immediate future of the refinery in mind, India may continue negotiating with the Trump administration to allow the import of smaller volumes of Russian crude.Indian refineries have been cutting down on purchase of Russian crude. Despite the decline, Russia remained the largest crude supplier to India in 2025-26, accounting for 31.5 per cent of purchases worth $105.1 billion during April-Dec.

Source: Economic Times February 09, 2026 13:01 UTC