{"id":384154,"date":"2020-11-16T08:42:07","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T03:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=384154"},"modified":"2020-11-16T08:42:07","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T03:12:07","slug":"indias-fuel-demand-posts-first-annual-growth-since-feb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indias-fuel-demand-posts-first-annual-growth-since-feb\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s fuel demand posts first annual growth since Feb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s fuel demand posted its first yearly increase since February as a spurt in diesel demand ahead of the festival season pushed consumption to pre-COVID-19 levels.<\/p>\n<p>Total demand for petroleum products rose 2.5% in October to reach 17.77 million tonnes as compared to 17.34 million tonnes a year back, according to provisional data published by the oil ministry&#8217;s Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell.<\/p>\n<p>While petrol had reached pre-COVID levels in September itself, diesel consumption returned to normal last month.<\/p>\n<p>Diesel demand soared 7.4% year-on-year to 6.5 million tonnes while petrol sales were up 4.5% at 2.54 million tonnes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s fuel demand posted its first yearly increase since February as a spurt in diesel demand ahead of the festival season pushed consumption to pre-COVID-19 levels. Total demand for petroleum products rose 2.5% in October to reach 17.77 million tonnes as compared to 17.34 million tonnes a year back, according to provisional data published by the oil ministry&#8217;s Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell. While petrol had reached pre-COVID levels in September itself, diesel consumption returned to normal last month. Diesel demand soared 7.4% year-on-year to 6.5 million tonnes while petrol sales were up 4.5% at 2.54 million tonnes.<\/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-384154","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\/384154","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=384154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}