{"id":376450,"date":"2020-10-03T08:42:52","date_gmt":"2020-10-03T03:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=376450"},"modified":"2020-10-03T09:11:01","modified_gmt":"2020-10-03T03:41:01","slug":"petrol-demand-returns-to-pre-covid-19-levels-diesel-sales-inching-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/petrol-demand-returns-to-pre-covid-19-levels-diesel-sales-inching-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Petrol demand returns to pre-Covid-19 levels, diesel sales inching up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s petrol sales rose 2 per cent in September &#8211; the first increase since the country&#8217;s lockdown in late March &#8211; signalling demand returning to pre-COVID-19 levels. <\/p>\n<p>Diesel sales continue to be below normal but have shown a month-on-month increase, according to provisional data from state-owned fuel retailers who control 90 per cent of the market. <\/p>\n<p>Petrol sales in September rose 2 per cent year-on-year and were up 10.5 per cent over the previous month. <\/p>\n<p>Diesel sales continue to be in the negative territory, with demand falling 7 per cent year-on-year. But the demand was 22 per cent higher over August 2020. <\/p>\n<p>This is the first time that petrol sales in the world&#8217;s third-largest oil importer have risen since the March 25 nationwide lockdown crippled economic activity and sent demand plummeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s petrol sales rose 2 per cent in September &#8211; the first increase since the country&#8217;s lockdown in late March &#8211; signalling demand returning to pre-COVID-19 levels. Diesel sales continue to be below normal but have shown a month-on-month increase, according to provisional data from state-owned fuel retailers who control 90 per cent of the market. Petrol sales in September rose 2 per cent year-on-year and were up 10.5 per cent over the previous month. Diesel sales continue to be in the negative territory, with demand falling 7 per cent year-on-year. But the demand was 22 per cent higher over [&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":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376450","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=376450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}