NEW DELHI: Diesel consumption contracted 5% in the first fortnight of November from a year ago after rising 6% in October and petrol sales tapered off to a level seen in the year-ago period after rising 4% last month, latest fuel sales data showed.
\nOn monthly basis, however, diesel demand grew 7.7% in the fortnight under review from the level seen in the same period last month. Similarly, petrol sales rose 4.7% month-on-month.
\nJet fuel sales during the fortnight were 52.8% lower from a year ago but on a month-on-month basis showed an increase of 1.3%. In October, jet fuel sales were down 50% from a year-ago period.
\nSurprisingly, LPG, or cooking gas, consumption also showed a decline of 2% in the first half of November from a year ago. In contrast, consumption has been rising between 3-4% every month, the data shows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NEW DELHI: Diesel consumption contracted 5% in the first fortnight of November from a year ago after rising 6% in October and petrol sales tapered off to a level seen in the year-ago period after rising 4% last month, latest fuel sales data showed. On monthly basis, however, diesel demand grew 7.7% in the fortnight under review from the level seen in the same period last month. Similarly, petrol sales rose 4.7% month-on-month. Jet fuel sales during the fortnight were 52.8% lower from a year ago but on a month-on-month basis showed an increase of 1.3%. In October, jet fuel […]<\/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":[130,219,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-384433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384433","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=384433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}