New Delhi: India and the UAE during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Abu Dhabi on Friday (May 15) are likely to sign two memorandums of understanding (MoUs) on LPG supplies and strategic petroleum reserves, official sources said, as the closure of the Strait of Hormuz continues to cast a shadow over India’s energy security.Modi’s visit to Abu Dhabi will also come weeks after the UAE decided to quit OPEC as it has sought to break from the cartel’s quotas and produce and export more crude oil.Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz in retaliation against the US and Israel’s war against it has disrupted India’s energy supplies, as it received almost 90% of its LPG imports and around 55% of its crude oil imports via the waterway during peacetime.As a result the Union government has tightened non-domestic gas supplies – a move that prominently hit the restaurant sector – and increased domestic production, with migrant labourers also impacted amid reports of lack of supply and black-marketing.An LPG MoU with the UAE, which is India’s largest supplier of the fuel, would come against this background, though the Hormuz strait’s closure will continue to impact Indian imports as long as it is in effect.The Gulf nation was also the fourth-largest source of Indian crude imports last year and the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company had agreed to stock close to six million barrels of oil with the Indian Strategic Petroleum Reserve Limited (ISPRL)’s Mangaluru facility in 2018.Commentators have noted that Abu Dhabi’s decision to exit OPEC in a bid to potentially ramp up its output to five million barrels per day of crude oil and other liquids – if the Strait of Hormuz is to reopen and shipping recover to pre-war levels – will have implications for India’s oil imports and its strategic reserves.ISPRL’s reserve capacity as of early February totalled 5.33 million metric tonnes, of which 4.094 million tonnes or around 77% were occupied.Due to the Strait of Hormuz’s closure India imported 0.95 million tonnes of LPG in April and 1.1 million tonnes in March, both lower than the two million tonne-average figure for April 2025-February 2026, the Indian Express reported citing data provided by Kpler.Its crude oil imports totalled 4.4 million barrels per day on average in April, 15% lower than the figure for February, per the Times of India, which also cited data from the ship-tracking firm.New Delhi and Abu Dhabi share a ‘Comprehensive Strategic Partnership’ and the Emirates, home to a 4.5 million-strong Indian community, are India’s third-largest trading partner. Modi has cultivated a cordial relationship with UAE President Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan and has visited the Gulf state seven times previously.