India has set a maximum nationwide production target of 63,810 metric tons of liquefied petroleum gas per day for state-owned and private refineries. The August 13 government order is designed to protect domestic cooking gas supplies and build reserves after the US-Israeli war against Iran disrupted imports of the essential fuel.
The directive turns energy security into refinery-specific obligations rather than a general request to raise output. Each designated producer receives a quantified contribution to the national LPG target, creating a framework for directing domestic production toward household supply during the conflict.
Companies must maintain adequate infrastructure to store and transport the assigned volumes. They can move LPG directly or use railway networks and road tankers, but their logistics must be capable of delivering the quantities established by the government.
The federal government will review and update the production targets every January and July. Those revisions will incorporate new facilities and additional output from existing refineries, allowing the nationwide requirement to change as domestic capacity expands.
Before the war, India obtained about 90 percent of its imported cooking gas from the Middle East. Those flows have been disrupted since March by the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, turning domestic output and buffer stocks into central elements of supply protection.
Reliance Industries' refinery focused on the domestic market has been assigned 18,000 tons of LPG production per day. State-owned explorers Oil and Natural Gas Corporation and Oil India, together with gas utility GAIL India, are expected to provide 10 percent of the nationwide target, distributing the emergency effort across refiners, upstream producers and gas infrastructure.
