{"id":367845,"date":"2020-08-14T12:02:53","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T06:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=367845"},"modified":"2020-08-14T13:24:08","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T07:54:08","slug":"fuel-demand-sees-5th-year-on-year-decline-amid-covid-19-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/fuel-demand-sees-5th-year-on-year-decline-amid-covid-19-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuel demand sees 5th year-on-year decline amid Covid-19 pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s fuel demand dragged lower in July, posting its fifth consecutive year-on-year decline, government data showed on Tuesday as a spike in coronavirus cases and floods in many parts of the country restricted economic activity.<\/p>\n<p>Consumption of refined fuels, a proxy for oil demand, fell to 15.68 million tonnes in July, 11.7 percent lower compared with a year earlier and 3.5 percent below the prior month, data from the Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell (PPAC) of the Ministry of Petroleum &amp; Natural Gas showed.<\/p>\n<p>Diesel consumption, which accounts for about two-fifths of India&#8217;s overall fuel usage and is widely used for transportation as well as for the country&#8217;s irrigation needs, fell to 5.52 million tonnes last month from 6.31 million tonnes in June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s fuel demand dragged lower in July, posting its fifth consecutive year-on-year decline, government data showed on Tuesday as a spike in coronavirus cases and floods in many parts of the country restricted economic activity. Consumption of refined fuels, a proxy for oil demand, fell to 15.68 million tonnes in July, 11.7 percent lower compared with a year earlier and 3.5 percent below the prior month, data from the Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell (PPAC) of the Ministry of Petroleum &amp; Natural Gas showed. Diesel consumption, which accounts for about two-fifths of India&#8217;s overall fuel usage and is widely used [&hellip;]<\/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":[146,130,177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-367845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367845","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=367845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}