INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
India and Japan are planning to release crude oil to lower worldwide pricesJapanese and Indian authorities are dealing with methods to
release national reserves of crude oil in tandem with the United States and other major economies to dampen rates, seven government sources
with knowledge of the strategies informed Reuters.US President Joe Biden has actually asked China, India, South Korea and Japan for a
collaborated oil stocks launch as US gasoline prices skyrocket and his approval rankings plunge ahead of next year's mid-term
congressional elections.The demand came after the US federal government was unable to encourage OPEC+ to pump more oil with major producers
arguing the world was not except crude.Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida signalled his readiness to release stocks over the
weekend.Three Indian government sources said on Monday they were holding assessments with the United States on the release of oil from
strategic reserves.Japan, the world's fourth-biggest oil purchaser, is limited on how it can act with its reserves - comprised of both
private and public stocks - which typically can just be utilized in times of shortage.One Japanese source stated the federal government was
looking into releasing from the portion of the state-held stocks outside the minimum amount required as a legal workaround.Japanese
officials are likewise looking at private stocks that become part of the nationwide reserve, which some advisors argue can be released
without limitations, a second source said.Japanese oil companies' reserves have actually been tapped during the 1991 Gulf War and following
the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disasters.Brent crude was down 0.7 percent on Monday due to impending lockdowns in Europe and prepares to
Japan's oil reserve held 145 days' worth of day-to-day petroleum usage at the end of September, according to main data, well above the
minimum 90 days needed by law.Japanese private business consisting of refiners hold about 175 million barrels of crude and oil items as part
of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), enough for around 90 days' intake, according to state company Jogmec, also going beyond the
minimum 70 days' requirement.India holds about 26.5 million barrels of oil in the SPR.
