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The Economic Times
The Economic Times
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US courting Reliance's refining muscle to keep oil flowing, not curb Russian crude, analyst says

New Delhi: US Secretary of State Marco Rubio last week spent half a day in a town most Americans can't find on a map.

The visit to Jamnagar, Gujarat, home to the world's largest single-site oil refinery, is being seen as Washington's bid to leverage Reliance Industries' refining capacity to process more Western Hemisphere crude and safeguard global fuel supplies, rather than forcing India off Russian oil, analysts said.

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