# Why Rubio is visiting Reliance’s oil refinery in India, the world’s largest

https://mins.news/en/item/107892

- Al Jazeera, 2026-10-20 12:37 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/20/why-rubio-is-visiting-reliances-oil-refinery-in-india-the-worlds-largest?traffic_source=rss

> US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has arrived in India and is due to visit Reliance Industries’ Jamnagar refinery in Gujarat. The company is central to Washington’s efforts to punish buyers of Russian energy and contain oil prices amid the war on Iran, while also drawing attention over US diesel costs and strained US-India ties.

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