{"id":52061,"date":"2025-09-17T13:51:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T11:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maritimefinance.eu\/?p=52061"},"modified":"2025-09-19T12:02:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T10:02:00","slug":"india-set-to-overtake-china-in-oil-demand-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maritimefinance.eu\/da\/india-set-to-overtake-china-in-oil-demand-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"India set to overtake China in oil demand growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"52061\" class=\"elementor elementor-52061\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-58879b0 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"58879b0\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4045524 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"4045524\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/maritimefinance.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/W38_article_3_cropped.jpg\" class=\"attachment-1536x1536 size-1536x1536 wp-image-52044\" alt=\"India set to overtake China in oil demand growth-EMF-Maritimefinance\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maritimefinance.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/W38_article_3_cropped.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/maritimefinance.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/W38_article_3_cropped-300x100.jpg 300w, https:\/\/maritimefinance.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/W38_article_3_cropped-1024x341.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/maritimefinance.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/W38_article_3_cropped-768x256.jpg 768w, https:\/\/maritimefinance.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/W38_article_3_cropped-18x6.jpg 18w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5d685fe elementor-widget__width-inherit elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5d685fe\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Near-term impact: Longer voyages and diversified flows<\/h4><div><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recent forecasts from OPEC+ and Trafigura suggest India\u2019s oil demand growth will outpace China\u2019s as early as in 2025, supported by industrialisation, urbanisation, and rising vehicle ownership. In the near term, this shift is likely to increase long-haul crude shipments from the US, Middle East, and West Africa to India, sustaining tonne-mile demand for tankers and adding resilience to freight rates.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Long-term outlook: India anchors global energy trade<br \/><\/strong>According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), India is expected to account for more than one-third of global oil demand growth through 2030, adding nearly 1.2 million barrels per day in consumption. With China\u2019s demand set to plateau within the next 3\u20135 years, this structural shift positions India as the central driver of global energy trade, reinforcing South Asia\u2019s growing role in shaping tanker utilisation and long-term market stability.<\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0ef65d0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"0ef65d0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Sources: IEA, OPEC &amp; Trafigura<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Near-term impact: Longer voyages and diversified flows Recent forecasts from OPEC+ and Trafigura suggest India\u2019s oil demand growth will outpace China\u2019s as early as in 2025, supported by industrialisation, urbanisation, and rising vehicle ownership. In the near term, this shift is likely to increase long-haul crude shipments from the US, Middle East, and West Africa [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70,68],"tags":[],"post_folder":[73,13],"class_list":["post-52061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-market-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>India set to overtake China in oil demand growth - European Maritime Finance<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/maritimefinance.eu\/da\/india-set-to-overtake-china-in-oil-demand-growth\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"da_DK\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"India set to overtake China in oil demand growth - European Maritime Finance\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Near-term impact: Longer voyages and diversified flows Recent forecasts from OPEC+ and Trafigura suggest India\u2019s oil demand growth will outpace China\u2019s as early as in 2025, supported by industrialisation, urbanisation, and rising vehicle ownership. 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