Dai Houliang, Chairman of China National Petroleum Corporation, Meets with India's Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas

en.Wedoany.com Reported - On September 11 local time, Dai Houliang, Chairman of China National Petroleum Corporation, was invited to meet with Hardeep Singh Puri, India's Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas, in New Delhi, India. The two sides exchanged views on deepening cooperation. Pankaj Mittal, Permanent Secretary of India's Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Arun Singh, Chairman of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, and Shrikant Madhav Vaidya, Chairman of Indian Oil Corporation, among others, attended the discussion.

Dai Houliang stated that in recent years, the heads of state of the two countries have met multiple times and reached a series of important consensus, including being partners for mutual development opportunities, which has pointed the way for the development of bilateral relations and laid a solid foundation for deepening practical cooperation in the energy sector between the two countries. CNPC is willing to work with the Indian side to jointly implement the important consensus of the two heads of state, strengthen communication and coordination, seek more cooperation opportunities in areas such as oil and gas, new energy, and green and low-carbon development, jointly enhance the voice and influence in the international energy governance system, and make positive contributions to promoting the stability and sustainable development of the global energy market.

Puri stated that India's Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas attaches great importance to cooperation with CNPC. As both India and China are major energy importing and consuming countries, he hopes the two sides will strengthen communication and exchanges on the basis of existing cooperation, enhance the level of cooperation through the BRICS platform, and work together to promote deeper and more substantive energy cooperation under the BRICS mechanism.

Li Qiang and others attended the meeting.