New Delhi, June 29 -- A refinery does not care about geopolitics. It cares about the crude in its tanks, the slate it can run, and whether the next cargo will berth on time. That operational truth became India's test during the hundred days of the Hormuz disruption. When a chokepoint that normally carried more than 40% of India's crude imports, over 80% of LPG imports and more than 55% of LNG imports suddenly became unreliable, the question inside every operations room was brutally practical: would the molecules keep arriving, and would citizens see the difference at the pump, in the kitchen or at the CNG station? They did not. Not a single retail outlet ran dry. Household LPG, PNG and CNG supplies were protected throughout. That is the r...