{"id":379030,"date":"2020-10-17T12:24:26","date_gmt":"2020-10-17T06:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=379030"},"modified":"2020-10-17T12:24:26","modified_gmt":"2020-10-17T06:54:26","slug":"octobers-diesel-sales-in-india-rise-above-pre-covid-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/octobers-diesel-sales-in-india-rise-above-pre-covid-levels\/","title":{"rendered":"October\u2019s diesel sales in India rise above pre-Covid levels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s gasoil sales rose in October for the first time since the nation imposed Covid-19 restrictions in late March, preliminary data shows, signalling a pick-up in industrial activity ahead of key festivals.<\/p>\n<p>Diesel sales by the country\u2019s three state fuel retailers rose 8.8% year on year in the first half of October, according to provisional data compiled by Indian Oil Corp , the country\u2019s biggest refiner and fuel retailer.<br \/>\nSales of gasoil, which account for about two fifths of the country\u2019s overall fuel demand, totalled 2.65 million tonnes, up more than 24% from the previous month.<\/p>\n<p>Rising diesel sales in the world\u2019s third-biggest oil consumer and importer would help refiners that have had to cut crude-processing runs during the coronavirus crisis, said an official at one of the state refiners, though he cautioned that diesel sales growth could be temporary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s gasoil sales rose in October for the first time since the nation imposed Covid-19 restrictions in late March, preliminary data shows, signalling a pick-up in industrial activity ahead of key festivals. Diesel sales by the country\u2019s three state fuel retailers rose 8.8% year on year in the first half of October, according to provisional data compiled by Indian Oil Corp , the country\u2019s biggest refiner and fuel retailer. Sales of gasoil, which account for about two fifths of the country\u2019s overall fuel demand, totalled 2.65 million tonnes, up more than 24% from the previous month. Rising diesel sales in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,130,183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-379030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379030","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}