{"id":420842,"date":"2021-06-17T08:47:44","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T03:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=420842"},"modified":"2021-06-17T09:47:11","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T04:17:11","slug":"indias-fuel-sales-recover-as-coronavirus-lockdown-restrictions-ease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indias-fuel-sales-recover-as-coronavirus-lockdown-restrictions-ease\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s fuel sales recover as coronavirus lockdown restrictions ease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Domestic fuel sales by India&#8217;s state refiners recovered in the first half of June, as the world&#8217;s third-largest oil consumer started easing lockdown restrictions, though were still lower than year-ago levels, preliminary data showed on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Gasoline sales during June 1-15 jumped 13% and diesel sales rose 12%, compared with the same period last month, data compiled by the state refiners showed. <\/p>\n<p>India&#8217;s fuel demand in May slumped to its lowest since last August with a second COVID-19 wave stalling mobility and muting economic activity in the Asian country.<\/p>\n<p>However, the data showed that sales of gasoline fell 3.5% and diesel declined 7.5% in the first half of June, when compared with the same period last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Domestic fuel sales by India&#8217;s state refiners recovered in the first half of June, as the world&#8217;s third-largest oil consumer started easing lockdown restrictions, though were still lower than year-ago levels, preliminary data showed on Wednesday. Gasoline sales during June 1-15 jumped 13% and diesel sales rose 12%, compared with the same period last month, data compiled by the state refiners showed. India&#8217;s fuel demand in May slumped to its lowest since last August with a second COVID-19 wave stalling mobility and muting economic activity in the Asian country. However, the data showed that sales of gasoline fell 3.5% and [&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":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-420842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420842","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=420842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}