In a sign of economic revival, the consumption of diesel went up for the first time this financial year during the October 1-15 period. The consumption of diesel increased by 8.8 per cent and that of petrol by 1.5 per cent over the same period last year.
Among all the petroleum products, only aviation turbine fuel continued to show low demand and fell by 57 per cent. In September, though petrol was up, diesel was down by 6 per cent.
Diesel consumption by all the three oil marketing companies — Indian Oil Corporation, Bharat Petroleum Corporation and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation — was seen at 2,650 thousand metric tonne (TMT) for the first 15 days of the month, as against 2435 TMT during the same period in October 2019.
