India Prioritizes Households as It Shifts LPG From Refiners

India has invoked emergency powers to redirect supplies of liquefied petroleum gas away from industrial users to households, as it seeks to shield ordinary people from the impact of the Middle East war.

An oil ministry notification on Tuesday barred refiners — including Reliance Industries Ltd.’s export-oriented unit — and petrochemical plants from using the fuel as a feedstock, while also ordering them to maximize LPG output. That was an expansion of a previous measure targeting other processors.