{"id":285381,"date":"2019-08-01T05:09:37","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T05:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=285381"},"modified":"2019-08-01T05:09:37","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T05:09:37","slug":"oil-demand-dips-0-2-in-q1-but-petrol-diesel-sales-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-demand-dips-0-2-in-q1-but-petrol-diesel-sales-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil demand dips 0.2% in Q1 but petrol, diesel sales rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: India\u2019s oil demand in the first quarter of this financial year was 0.2% lower than that a year ago as sales of industrial, aviation and kitchen fuels fell, although sales of petrol climbed 10% and that of diesel went up 2.1%. <\/p>\n<p>Oil demand expanded 2.7% in 2018-19, when the economy grew 6.8%. In 2017-18, oil demand and the GDP grew 5.9% and 7.2%, respectively. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hard to draw an exact relationship between oil sales and economic activity, but analysts say contraction in fuel sales can suggest a slowdown. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: India\u2019s oil demand in the first quarter of this financial year was 0.2% lower than that a year ago as sales of industrial, aviation and kitchen fuels fell, although sales of petrol climbed 10% and that of diesel went up 2.1%. Oil demand expanded 2.7% in 2018-19, when the economy grew 6.8%. In 2017-18, oil demand and the GDP grew 5.9% and 7.2%, respectively. It\u2019s hard to draw an exact relationship between oil sales and economic activity, but analysts say contraction in fuel sales can suggest a slowdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,191,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}