{"id":375019,"date":"2020-09-24T11:31:17","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T06:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=375019"},"modified":"2020-09-24T11:31:17","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T06:01:17","slug":"natural-gas-demand-falls-amid-covid-19-production-hit-too-but-may-recover-as-economy-unlocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/natural-gas-demand-falls-amid-covid-19-production-hit-too-but-may-recover-as-economy-unlocks\/","title":{"rendered":"Natural gas demand falls amid COVID-19; production hit too, but may recover as economy unlocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The domestic natural gas consumer demand and production took a hit during April-August period this year with the coronavirus pandemic hitting the country. The production fell sharply in FY21 as compared to the comparable period last year, a report said on Wednesday. \u201cCumulative fall in production is mainly due to restricted\/ no gas off take by consumers due to COVID-19 situation and shutdown at consumers\u2019 end,\u201d a CARE Ratings report said. Further, environmental issues, which resulted in bandhs\/blockade by local people with concerns associated with Baghjan well blast, also took a toll on cumulative production. While the domestic natural gas production declined 1% last year, it witnessed a slide of 13.2% during FY21 (April-August).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The domestic natural gas consumer demand and production took a hit during April-August period this year with the coronavirus pandemic hitting the country. The production fell sharply in FY21 as compared to the comparable period last year, a report said on Wednesday. \u201cCumulative fall in production is mainly due to restricted\/ no gas off take by consumers due to COVID-19 situation and shutdown at consumers\u2019 end,\u201d a CARE Ratings report said. Further, environmental issues, which resulted in bandhs\/blockade by local people with concerns associated with Baghjan well blast, also took a toll on cumulative production. While the domestic natural gas [&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-375019","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\/375019","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=375019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}