{"id":351311,"date":"2020-05-14T12:12:38","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T06:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=351311"},"modified":"2020-05-14T12:12:38","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T06:42:38","slug":"domestic-gas-output-falls-19-in-april-crude-production-down-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/domestic-gas-output-falls-19-in-april-crude-production-down-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Domestic gas output falls 19% in April, crude production down 8%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Domestic natural gas production fell 18.9% to 2,155 million metric standard cubic metre (MMSCM) in April. The 2.5 million tonne (MT) of crude oil produced in the country in the month was also 7.7% lower than the production from a year-ago period. The development coincides with domestic consumption of petroleum products falling 46% y-o-y to 18.3 MT in April, when the lockdown to contain the spread of the coronavirus was implemented throughout the month.<\/p>\n<p>Indigenous crude oil production caters to about only 15% of the country\u2019s requirements, while for natural gas, 51% of requirement has to be imported. Domestic natural gas output fell 5.2% y-o-y to 31,166 MMSCM in FY20, reversing the growth trend recorded since FY18. Also, the 32.1 MT of crude oil produced in the country in the fiscal was 1.2% lower than the output from a year-ago period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Domestic natural gas production fell 18.9% to 2,155 million metric standard cubic metre (MMSCM) in April. The 2.5 million tonne (MT) of crude oil produced in the country in the month was also 7.7% lower than the production from a year-ago period. The development coincides with domestic consumption of petroleum products falling 46% y-o-y to 18.3 MT in April, when the lockdown to contain the spread of the coronavirus was implemented throughout the month. Indigenous crude oil production caters to about only 15% of the country\u2019s requirements, while for natural gas, 51% of requirement has to be imported. Domestic [&hellip;]<\/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":[130,195,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-351311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351311","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=351311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}