its oil needs has long pressed producers cartel to phase out its production cuts and allow oil prices to come to reasonable levels but to no availindia and opecindia is the worlds thirdlargest consumer of crude and opec nations such as saudi arabia have traditionally been its principal oil source but opec and opec ignoring its call for easing of supply curbs had led india to tap newer sources to diversify its crude oil importsas a result opecs share in indias oil imports dropped to about 60 per cent in may from 74 per cent in the previous monththe two sides have somewhat patched up relations with saudi arabia and the uae supplying critical medicine oxygen and equipment to help india battle its second wave of coronavirus infections with inputs from agencies