The US wants India to buy more Venezuelan oil, particularly through Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL), which runs the world’s largest single-location refining complex in Gujarat’s Jamnagar. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio visited RIL’s Jamnagar mega refinery complex on Wednesday, and one of the items on the agenda of his meeting with RIL top brass was expanding India’s — and RIL’s — imports of Venezuelan oil, which is now under US oversight .

Ahead of his Jamnagar visit, Rubio said Tuesday that India is a “refining superpower”, and pitched for an increase in oil imports from the Western Hemisphere, particularly Venezuela, as New Delhi continues to diversify its energy sourcing portfolio. RIL’s twin-refinery complex is among the most complex in the world, which means that it is equipped to process the extremely heavy Venezuelan crude. A few other Indian refineries can also handle Caracas’s highly viscous oil.

“The whole world is interested in diversifying how we get energy.…