May 26 (Reuters) - Indian refiners' crude throughput fell 8.9% month-on-month in April to 5.23 million barrels per day (21.39 million metric tons), provisional government data showed on Tuesday.

India is the world's third-biggest oil importer and consumer.

o Refinery throughput in March was at 5.55 million barrels per day (23.48 million metric tons).

o On a year-on-year basis, refinery throughput slipped by 2.2% in April.

o The U.S.-Iran conflict has led to volatility in energy prices as shipping flows through the Strait of Hormuz, a conduit for about 20% of global oil and LNG supplies, remain disrupted.

o Indian refiners turned to imports from Latin America and Africa after supplies from the Middle East were disrupted, data provided by trade sources show.

o Indian refiner Nayara Energy, part-owned by Russian oil major Rosneft, received a delivery of just one Russian oil cargo in April as it had fully shut its refinery for most of the month for routine maintenance, according to ship tracking data obtained from industry sources.

REFINERY PRODUCTION IN TERMS OF CRUDE THROUGHPUT (in 1,000 tons):

April 2026 March 2026 April 2025

Actual Actual Actual

IOCL, Barauni 550 578 476

IOCL, Koyali 1,442 1,483 1,068

IOCL, Haldia 733 764 701

IOCL, Mathura 828 895 825

IOCL, Panipat 1,346 1,411 1,322

IOCL, Guwahati 110 114 100

IOCL, Digboi 63 66 37

IOCL, Bongaigaon 259 233 230

IOCL, Paradip 1,240 1,330 1,362

CPCL, Manali 910 989 930

BPCL, Mumbai 1,282 1,264 1,214

BPCL, Kochi 1,450 1,427 1,512

BPCL, Bina 649 651 653

NRL, Numaligarh 264 291 277

ONGC, Tatipaka 5 5 5

MRPL, Mangalore 1,442 1,475 1,512

HPCL, Mumbai 789 896 831

HPCL, Visakh 1,288 1,368 1,412

HMEL, Bathinda 1,088 1,171 1,067

RIL, Jamnagar 2,475 2,874 1,551

RIL, SEZ 2,672 2,543 3,113

Nayara, Vadinar 502 1,654 1,665

TOTAL 21,387 23,482 21,864

Source: Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas

IOC: Indian Oil Corp

BPCL: Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd

HPCL: Hindustan Petroleum Corp Ltd

CPCL: Chennai Petroleum Corp Ltd

MRPL: Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd

Reliance Industries Ltd

Please note that CPCL's CBR refinery is decommissioned under shutdown due to limitation in meeting required product specifications with the existing configuration.

(Reporting by Pablo Sinha in Bengaluru; Editing by Jan Harvey)