Reuters - Essar Oil, a key Indian client of Tehran, more than doubled oil imports from Iran in February compared with the previous month, according to tanker arrival data obtained from trade sources and ship-tracking services on the Thomson Reuters Eikon terminal.

Essar shipped in about 246,600 barrels per day (bpd) of oil from Iran last month, compared with about 118,000 bpd a year ago, the data showed.

(Reporting by Nidhi Verma; Editing by Subhranshu Sahu)