Union Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas Suresh Gopi expressed on Thursday the government measures that the government has taken to address the emerging LPG supply crisis in the country, and as he exalted of further avenues to achieve supplementary supplies.

He said that only yesterday, Hardeep Singh Puri, Union Minister for Oil and Petroleum, had presented the situation of the LPG supply in Parliament.

Due to the sensitivity of the initial discussions, Minister Gopi further lamented that the government was not in a position to address these issues, pertaining to the Strait of Hormuz.

Minister rightly told of the discussions carried out by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on various fronts with world leaders about how the closure of the Strait of Hormuz was impacting the global energy supply.

“Everybody is speaking to everybody [regarding potential causes of the energy crisis],” stated a senior government official who spoke on request of anonymity. “A small easing in the global supply chain for oil and LPG is visible as demand patterns are reshaped to enable a shift of a bit more towards India. Despite the lower calorific value of diesel as compared to petrol, there has been less of a shift towards gas”.

“Essentials are taken care of first”

The government has been busy trying to prioritize LPG for crucial services like hospitals and crematoriums, especially over the next days when the supply chain has broken down.

In an articulation of the plain fact, concerned officials suggested that despite efforts to correct the situation to the maximum extent possible under constant review, there are other factors of technical and geopolitical nature in the global oil context whose control is not exactly within the aegis of any one government.

Conflict crawl on West Asia impacting supply of LPG

The escalating violence in West Asia, now involving the US, Israel, and Iran, is beginning to negatively affect various supply chains around the world, including India’s commercial LPG sector.

“It has begun in the logistics chain: hotels, restaurants, hostels, and other catering services are already facing the impacts from supply lines.”

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Bomb attack on Al-Mashhad television station in Sulimaniya, Iraqi Kurdistan, killed more than one person on Sunday.

It is believed that there are about 10 to 50 other people who are seriously injured.

Twenty people in a room on the fourth floor were watching former films. A high-explosive bomb thrown in the room exploded, killing all of them in one go. Rubbles of the building crashed on people outside.

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Saturday Bloody Saturday. Just kill as many as you can! This is what the bombings at Al-Arabiya in Iraq’s capital city Baghdad a few days ago taught us. What for?

So, what did they take in exchange for the “massacre of humanity,” which was such a meaningless act?