{"id":381618,"date":"2020-11-02T10:20:42","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T04:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=381618"},"modified":"2020-11-02T10:20:42","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T04:50:42","slug":"indias-diesel-sales-expand-for-first-time-in-eight-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indias-diesel-sales-expand-for-first-time-in-eight-months\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s diesel sales expand for first time in eight months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Diesel sales in India clocked its first year-on-year gain since February as annual festivals boosted demand for the country\u2019s most-consumed fuel.<\/p>\n<p>Sales by India\u2019s top three fuel retailers rose 6.1% from a year earlier in October to 5.76 million tons, according to officials with direct knowledge of the fuel sales data.<\/p>\n<p>The rebound in diesel demand is crucial for ramping up crude processing by Indian refiners after fuel consumption was crushed by a strict lockdown in late March to check the spread of Covid-19 pandemic. Indian Oil Corp., the country\u2019s biggest refiner, has boosted its run rates to 93% of capacity and is hoping to reach 100% in a couple of months, Chairman Shrikant Madhav Vaidya said on Oct. 30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diesel sales in India clocked its first year-on-year gain since February as annual festivals boosted demand for the country\u2019s most-consumed fuel. Sales by India\u2019s top three fuel retailers rose 6.1% from a year earlier in October to 5.76 million tons, according to officials with direct knowledge of the fuel sales data. The rebound in diesel demand is crucial for ramping up crude processing by Indian refiners after fuel consumption was crushed by a strict lockdown in late March to check the spread of Covid-19 pandemic. Indian Oil Corp., the country\u2019s biggest refiner, has boosted its run rates to 93% of [&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":[139,130,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381618","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=381618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}