Union petroleum minister Hardeep Singh Puri on November 17 said that India has signed a ‘historic’ deal with the US to import liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) amid growing pressure to diversify country’s energy sources.

Puri said state-run oil companies have clinched a one-year deal to to import 2.2 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) LPG from the US, buying around 10 percent of India’s annual share in 2026.

“In our endeavour to provide secure affordable supplies of LPG to the people of India, we have been diversifying our LPG sourcing,” Puri said in a post on X.

Under the country’s first structure contract, PSUs will source LPG in 2026 from the US gulf coast for world’s “fastest-growing” Indian market, Puri said.