India seeks 2027 LPG imports from US via term tender, document shows

Indian state-owned LPG importers have issued a joint tender seeking ​around 2.75 million metric tons of liquefied ‌petroleum gas from the United States for delivery in 2027, a document reviewed by Reuters showed on Friday.

Indian ​Oil, Bharat Petroleum and Hindustan Petroleum are ​seeking four very large gas carrier cargoes ⁠per month.

Each cargo would have a volume 46,000 ​tons, evenly split between propane and butane, on ​a delivered basis every month during 2027.

The tender also seeks one 45,000-ton cargo each month on free-on-board basis, the ​tender said.

The tender is valid until October ​22.

LPG is a mixture of propane and butane.

India is the ‌world's ⁠second-largest importer of LPG, behind only China.

It sourced about 90% of its 21.85 million metric tons of LPG imports from the Middle East in ​2025, with ​imports accounting ⁠for around 66% of India's total LPG consumption, government data shows.

The U.S.-Israeli war ​on Iran, which began at the end ​of ⁠February, causing severe disruption of fuel supplies, led the Indian government in March to invoke emergency measures ⁠to ​divert petrochemical feedstocks from industry ​to households, which use LPG as cooking gas.