{"id":421701,"date":"2021-06-22T10:07:53","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T04:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=421701"},"modified":"2021-06-22T10:52:14","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T05:22:14","slug":"indias-may-crude-oil-imports-dip-as-coronavirus-pandemic-curbs-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indias-may-crude-oil-imports-dip-as-coronavirus-pandemic-curbs-demand\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s May crude oil imports dip as coronavirus pandemic curbs demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) -India&#8217;s May crude oil imports slipped to their lowest in three months as fuel demand sagged amid a second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic that crimped economic activity and mobility, government data showed on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>However, imports were still 18.2% higher from a year earlier, data on the website of the Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell (PPAC) showed.<\/p>\n<p>On a monthly basis, crude oil imports in the world&#8217;s third largest oil consumer and importer dropped 5.5% to 17.26 million tonnes from April.<\/p>\n<p>Last month&#8217;s decline in imports comes on the heels of data showing fuel consumption slumped in May to its lowest since last August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) -India&#8217;s May crude oil imports slipped to their lowest in three months as fuel demand sagged amid a second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic that crimped economic activity and mobility, government data showed on Monday. However, imports were still 18.2% higher from a year earlier, data on the website of the Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell (PPAC) showed. On a monthly basis, crude oil imports in the world&#8217;s third largest oil consumer and importer dropped 5.5% to 17.26 million tonnes from April. Last month&#8217;s decline in imports comes on the heels of data showing fuel consumption slumped in May [&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-421701","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\/421701","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=421701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}