{"id":296537,"date":"2019-10-16T17:32:28","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T12:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=296537"},"modified":"2019-10-16T17:32:28","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T12:02:28","slug":"indias-september-fuel-demand-slips-to-its-lowest-in-over-2-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indias-september-fuel-demand-slips-to-its-lowest-in-over-2-years\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s September fuel demand slips to its lowest in over 2 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s fuel demand fell to its lowest in more than two years in September, data from the Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell (PPAC) showed. <\/p>\n<p>Consumption of fuel, a proxy for oil demand, totalled 16.01 million tonnes &#8211; its lowest since July 2017 &#8211; down about 0.3% compared with the same month last year. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, consumption of diesel, which is widely used for transportation as well as for irrigation needs in India, slipped more than 3% year-over-year to 5.83 million tonnes, its lowest since January 2017. Sales of gasoline, or petrol, were 6.3% higher from a year earlier at 2.37 million tonnes. <\/p>\n<p>Cooking gas or liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) sales increased nearly 6% to 2.18 million tonnes, while naphtha sales slumped 26% to 0.84 million tonnes. Sales of bitumen, used for making roads, were 7.3% lower, while fuel oil use edged lower 3.8% in September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s fuel demand fell to its lowest in more than two years in September, data from the Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell (PPAC) showed. Consumption of fuel, a proxy for oil demand, totalled 16.01 million tonnes &#8211; its lowest since July 2017 &#8211; down about 0.3% compared with the same month last year. Meanwhile, consumption of diesel, which is widely used for transportation as well as for irrigation needs in India, slipped more than 3% year-over-year to 5.83 million tonnes, its lowest since January 2017. Sales of gasoline, or petrol, were 6.3% higher from a year earlier at 2.37 million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oil-gas"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296537","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}