India bars piped natural gas customers from buying LPG cylinders, order shows

India has barred piped natural gas customers from buying liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) cylinders with immediate effect, a government order dated Monday showed.

India has cut LPG supplies to some industries due to the shortage caused by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz due to the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran.

New Delhi is pushing customers to use piped gas. India consumed 33.15 million metric tons of LPG, mostly used as cooking gas, in 2025, with imports accounting for about 60% of demand. About 90% of those imports came from the West Asia.

Earlier, Reuters had reported that Indian refiners turned to imports from Latin America and Africa after supplies from the West Asia were disrupted as the Israeli-US war on Iran restricted shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, data provided by trade sources show.

Refiners in the world's third-largest oil importer and consumer bought most of their crude from the nearby Middle East until the ​war broke out at the end of February.

In April and May, Indian refiners raised imports from ​Venezuela, Brazil, Angola and Nigeria to make up the shortfall, as well as continuing ⁠to buy Russian oil, preliminary data from Kpler show.

Last month, India skipped purchases from Iraq as exports ​were halted, while it received Iranian oil after a gap of seven years following a temporary waiver granted by ​Washington to help stabilise global oil prices.

New Delhi reduced imports from Russia by about 29.4% from March to 1.6 million barrels per day as Nayara Energy shut its 400,000-bpd refinery for maintenance, the data showed.

However, in May, India is due to ​get about 1.9 million bpd of Russian oil and about 41,000 bpd of Iraqi oil, preliminary data ​from Kpler showed.

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