NEW DELHI: The United States will ensure India receives adequate supplies of oil as New Delhi stops buying Iranian crude in line with US sanctions, secretary of state Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday.

India, the world’s third-biggest oil importer, bought about 184,000 barrels per day (bpd) of oil from the United States between November 2018 and May 2019, compared with about 40,000 bpd in the same period a year earlier, tanker data obtained from shipping and industry sources shows.

Mike Pompeo is on a visit to India and held wide-ranging talks today with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and foreign minister S Jaishankar .

During their meeting, Jaishankar and Pompeo discussed the issue of energy security in the wake of the situation arising out of US sanctions on buying oil from Iran and the US-Iran tensions in the Gulf.

"We have a certain perspective on Iran. The Secretary shared with me the American concerns on Iran...For us it is important that global energy supplies remain predictable. I think that is a concern that Secretary Pompeo was very very receptive," Jaishankar said.

