(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 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
BPCL: Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd
HPCL: Hindustan Petroleum Corp Ltd
CPCL: Chennai Petroleum Corp Ltd
MRPL: Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd
Reliance Industries Ltd
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)