"The US Ambassador to India Juster recognized that the energy component is emerging as a key constituent of the India-US strategic partnership," tweeted the Ministry.
"Minister Dharmendra Pradhan invited US companies to engage more intensely in developing the gas infrastructure in the country and reviewed the strategic petroleum reserves' cooperation initiated in June this year," it said in another tweet.
India only began purchasing oil from the US in 2017 as it sought to diversify its imports away from OPEC countries, but in the course of just three years, the US has become India's sixth largest oil supplier.
It is also worth noting that India, as one of the world's largest energy consumers, relies on oil imports to meet 85 % of its energy needs, purchasing around 101 million tonnes from abroad between April 2019 and March 2020.
