{"id":394485,"date":"2021-01-11T10:39:15","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T05:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=394485"},"modified":"2021-01-11T12:06:13","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T06:36:13","slug":"petrol-sales-up-9-3-percent-in-december-diesel-down-2-8-percent-jet-fuel-by-41-percent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/petrol-sales-up-9-3-percent-in-december-diesel-down-2-8-percent-jet-fuel-by-41-percent\/","title":{"rendered":"Petrol sales up 9.3 percent in December; diesel down 2.8 percent, jet fuel by 41 percent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Petrol sales increased 9.3% year-on-year in December while diesel demand fell 2.8%, reflecting varying recovery paths for the two transportation fuels in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Demand for all refined products fell 1.8% in December from a year earlier, signalling that the country&#8217;s oil market had come a long way from nearly 50% contraction in April due to the lockdown but was yet to fully recover to the pre-pandemic level.<\/p>\n<p>A slower recovery in diesel, which makes up 40% of oil demand in the country, indicated that economic activity was picking up but only gradually, said an industry executive. Diesel is primarily used in the transport of NSE -2.56 % goods, and a slower recovery means sluggish demand growth in the domestic and export markets. India&#8217;s exports fell 0.8% year-on-year in December, as per preliminary government data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Petrol sales increased 9.3% year-on-year in December while diesel demand fell 2.8%, reflecting varying recovery paths for the two transportation fuels in the country. Demand for all refined products fell 1.8% in December from a year earlier, signalling that the country&#8217;s oil market had come a long way from nearly 50% contraction in April due to the lockdown but was yet to fully recover to the pre-pandemic level. A slower recovery in diesel, which makes up 40% of oil demand in the country, indicated that economic activity was picking up but only gradually, said an industry executive. Diesel [&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":[130,191,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394485","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=394485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}