{"id":412426,"date":"2021-04-28T09:36:02","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T04:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=412426"},"modified":"2021-04-28T10:25:30","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T04:55:30","slug":"refiners-cut-capacity-by-5-6-as-lockdowns-hit-fuel-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/refiners-cut-capacity-by-5-6-as-lockdowns-hit-fuel-demand\/","title":{"rendered":"Refiners cut capacity by 5-6% as lockdowns hit fuel demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With various state governments imposing lockdowns and curfews as the pandemic\u2019s second wave continues to surge across India, fuel demand is under pressure, said oil companies, forcing them to cut capacity utilization from 100% to 94-95%. <\/p>\n<p>Maharashtra, Delhi, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Rajasthan and Goa have imposed local lockdowns and curfews. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have cut the capacity marginally at present and are observing the situation. In case the cases continue to rise, and states extend lockdowns and curfews, we will have to review the situation,&#8221; said a senior official of an oil marketing company. <\/p>\n<p>Indian Oil Corp., Bharat Petroleum Corp., Hindustan Petroleum Corp. and Reliance Industries did not respond to email queries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With various state governments imposing lockdowns and curfews as the pandemic\u2019s second wave continues to surge across India, fuel demand is under pressure, said oil companies, forcing them to cut capacity utilization from 100% to 94-95%. Maharashtra, Delhi, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Rajasthan and Goa have imposed local lockdowns and curfews. \u201cWe have cut the capacity marginally at present and are observing the situation. In case the cases continue to rise, and states extend lockdowns and curfews, we will have to review the situation,&#8221; said a senior official of an oil marketing company. Indian Oil Corp., Bharat Petroleum Corp., Hindustan Petroleum Corp. [&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":[139,130,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-412426","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\/412426","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=412426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}