{"id":18829,"date":"2026-05-25T21:19:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T21:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/2026\/05\/25\/india-has-78-days-of-crude-stock-no-shortage-of-lpg-government-to-parliament-panel\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T21:19:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T21:19:44","slug":"india-has-78-days-of-crude-stock-no-shortage-of-lpg-government-to-parliament-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/?p=18829","title":{"rendered":"India has 78 days of crude stock, no shortage of LPG: Government to parliament panel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-131316909,imgsize-175366,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/-.jpg\" alt=\"India has 78 days of crude stock, no shortage of LPG: Government to parliament panel\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NEW DELHI: Petroleum ministry officials told a parliamentary panel on Monday that there is 78 days of crude stock and assured there is no shortage of LPG, in response to questions from several members over \u201clong queues\u201d at fuel stations in some parts of the country.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"2\"\/>The panel on transport, tourism and culture headed by JDU MP Sanjay Jha held the meeting to discuss the impact of the West Asia situation on maritime trade, shipping infrastructure and seafarer safety. It was attended by officials from shipping, petroleum, fertiliser and external affairs ministry.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/>Shipping ministry officials informed members that 37 India-bound ships are stranded in the Persian Gulf due to disruptions in movement of vessels through the Strait of Hormuz.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"8\"\/>The panel was also informed that there are around 18,000 Indian seafarers in the Persian Gulf, including around 11,000 in the west of Hormuz, and most of them are staying there due to job commitments, people privy to the discussion said. Officials said the stuck ships can be evacuated in 5-6 days once the operation of ships through conflict-hit strait become normal.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"10\"\/>The officials are also learnt to have told the panel that insurance premiums for cargo ships have risen \u2014 up to 100 times in the case of containers \u2014 in view of the West Asia crisis. They also said that while the shipping ministry, along with the help of the external affairs ministry, is trying to get Indian ships out of the war zone in West Asia, ships are facing problems in crossing the affected area.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"14\"\/>Jha lauded govt\u2019s efforts in handling the crisis. \u201cYou know that India has not done this; the whole world is facing, but the initiatives that have been taken&#8230; We also do not know how long this will continue; govt is addressing them&#8230; Things are in control at the moment,&#8221; he told reporters after the meeting.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"16\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/business\/india-business\/india-has-78-days-of-crude-stock-no-shortage-of-lpg-government-to-parliament-panel\/articleshow\/131316910.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Petroleum ministry officials told a parliamentary panel on Monday that there is 78 days of crude stock and assured there is no shortage of LPG, in response to questions from several members over \u201clong queues\u201d at fuel stations in some parts of the country.The panel on transport, tourism and culture headed by JDU&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}