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Budget 2017: India to have two more strategic crude oil reserves

India's crude oil storage facility may zoom to above 15 MT

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BS Reporter New Delhi
In an effort to insulate the country from future shortage of crude oil in global markets and be energy secure, the Union Budget on Wednesday lined up a plan to set up two more strategic oil reserves in Odisha and Bikaner in Rajasthan.

This would mean that from 5.33 million metric tonnes (MMT) of strategic reserves, India’s crude oil storage facility may zoom to above 15 MT. Currently, India has underground caverns at Visakhapatnam (1.33 million tonnes), Mangalore (1.5 million tonnes) and Padur (2.5 million tonnes). 

“As a phase two of this, Strategic crude reserves- caverns to be set up in

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