<div>India's domestic fuel supplies will not be affected by fallout from the ongoing conflict in Iraq although state-run refiners have been asked to draw up a contingency plan, the oil ministry said in a statement on Thursday.<br /><br />Iraq, the second-biggest crude oil supplier to India after Saudi Arabia, met around 13 percent of the South Asian nation's overall import needs last year, it said.<br /><br />State-refiners are aiming to buy 388,000 barrels per day (bpd) of Iraqi oil this year.<br /><br />Two of the state refiners, Indian Oil Corp and Hindustan Petroleum Corp, together aim to buy 374,000 bpd from Iraq in 2014, it said.<br /><br />Crude supplies from Iraq come from the Basra oilfields which are situated well away from the fighting in north-eastern Iraq.<br /><br />Ship loading from the Basra oil terminal, continued normally, it said.<br /><br />The government has also asked state refiners to diversify resources for the import of crude oil to minimise the impact of any geo-political instability in the Middle East.<br /><br />(Reuters)</div>
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