India’s natural gas demand rebounds, reaches near pre-Covid level
NEW DELHI: Higher demand from fertilizer plants, refineries and power plants has helped natural gas demand recover to almost pre-Covid levels with consumption in July just 2% lower than last year.
India consumed 5,333 million metric standard cubic meters (MMSCM) of natural gas in July as against 5,433 MMSCM in the same month last year, official data showed. This is a sharp recovery from June when the consumption of 4,925 MMSCM was 9% lower than a year earlier.
