Indian refiners' June crude processing drops 4.2% from a month earlier

Oil India

22/07/2025 13:09

July 22 (Reuters) - Indian refiners' crude throughput declined by 4.2% month-on-month in June to 5.41 million barrels per day (22.13 million metric tons), according to provisional government data released on Tuesday.

Refinery throughput in May was at 5.47 million barrels per day (23.11 million metric tons). On a year-on-year basis, refinery throughput fell 0.3%.

India's fuel consumption fell 4.7% in June from the previous month to 20.31 million metric tons, oil ministry data showed.

India is the world's third-biggest oil importer and consumer.

"Looking at the last years, refinery runs every year declined from May into June, likely driven by seasonally declining domestic oil demand due to the monsoon," said Giovanni Staunovo, an analyst at UBS.

Meanwhile, Oil Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said India is confident of meeting its oil needs from alternative sources if Russian supplies are hit by secondary sanctions.

U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to hit buyers of Russian exports with sanctions unless Russia agrees a peace deal over the conflict in Ukraine, potentially complicating Moscow's oil sales to China, India and Turkey.

India's monthly oil imports from Russia in June surged 17.4% to about 2 million barrels per day, data provided by trade sources showed.

India's state-run Oil and Natural Gas Corporation ONGC.NS is exploring building a 200,000-240,000 barrel-per-day refinery at Jamnagar in the western Indian state of Gujarat, a company source said last week.

REFINERY PRODUCTION IN TERMS OF CRUDE THROUGHPUT (in 1,000 tons):

June-25
May-25
June-24
April-June 2025
Actual
Actual
Actual
Actual
IOCL, Barauni
556
572
566
1,604
IOCL, Bongaigaon
254
259
218
743
IOCL, Digboi
65
47
63
149
IOCL, Gujarat
949
990
1,300
3,007
IOCL, Guwahati
106
111
108
318
IOCL, Haldia
740
750
673
2,191
IOCL, Mathura
844
883
845
2,552
IOCL, Panipat
1,296
1,333
1,299
3,951
IOCL, Paradip
1,390
1,415
884
4,168
BPCL, Bina
654
671
678
1,978
BPCL, Kochi
1,511
1,476
1,482
4,499
BPCL, Mumbai
1,239
1,284
1,121
3,705
HPCL, Mumbai
828
743
885
2,402
HPCL, Visakh
1,300
1,444
1,290
4,156
CPCL, Manali
1,010
1,040
930
2,981
NRL, Numaligarh
250
272
246
799
MRPL, Mangalore
737
1,169
1,474
3,417
ONGC, Tatipaka
7
6
6
18
HMEL, Bhatinda
1,074
1,113
1,077
3,254
RIL, Jamnagar
2,873
2,897
2,832
7,321
RIL, SEZ
2,737
2,876
2,627
8,726
Nayara, Vadinar
1,709
1,762
1,598
5,136
TOTAL
22,130
23,113
22,202
67,074

Source: Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas

IOC: Indian Oil Corp IOC.NS

BPCL: Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd BPCL.NS

HPCL: Hindustan Petroleum Corp Ltd HPCL.NS

CPCL: Chennai Petroleum Corp Ltd CHPC.NS

MRPL: Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd MRPL.NS

Reliance Industries Ltd RELI.NS

Please note that CPCL's CBR refinery is de-commissioned under shutdown due to limitation in meeting required product specifications with the existing configuration.

 (Reporting by Anushree Mukherjee in Bengaluru; Editing by Jan Harvey)

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