Fuel demand recovery stalled in July amid record rise in coronavirus cases, lockdown by states and high fuel prices.<\/p>\n
Demand for diesel in July dropped 12.5% over June, halting a swift recovery witnessed in May and June. Petrol sales in July also fell 1% compared to June. Diesel and petrol sales are down 21% and 11%, respectively, in July from a year earlier, according to industry executives. The figures are for sales by state-run fuel retailers who control 90% of the market. <\/p>\n
The sale of aviation turbine fuel (ATF) rose 3.8% in July from a month earlier but is down 65% from the July of 2019 due to the absence of international flights and limited domestic operations. Sales of liquefied petroleum gas, used mainly as cooking fuel in India, rose 10% month on month and were up 3.4% year on year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Fuel demand recovery stalled in July amid record rise in coronavirus cases, lockdown by states and high fuel prices. Demand for diesel in July dropped 12.5% over June, halting a swift recovery witnessed in May and June. Petrol sales in July also fell 1% compared to June. Diesel and petrol sales are down 21% and 11%, respectively, in July from a year earlier, according to industry executives. The figures are for sales by state-run fuel retailers who control 90% of the market. The sale of aviation turbine fuel (ATF) rose 3.8% in July from a month earlier but is down […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"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-366035","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\/366035","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}