New Delhi: India Monday announced its first “structured deal” with the US to source liquified petroleum gas (LPG) accounting for roughly 10 percent of its needs, months after President Donald Trump’s demand that New Delhi increase its energy purchases from his country.

“One of the largest and the world’s fastest growing LPG market opens up to the United States. In our endeavour to provide secure affordable supplies of LPG to the people of India, we have been diversifying our LPG sourcing,” Energy Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said in a statement on the social media platform ‘X’.

The minister added: “In a significant development, Indian PSU oil companies have successfully concluded a 1 year deal for imports of around 2.2 MTPA LPG, close to 10% of our annual imports – for the contract year

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