{"id":436450,"date":"2021-09-17T09:29:04","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T03:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=436450"},"modified":"2021-09-17T10:28:19","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T04:58:19","slug":"indias-september-diesel-consumption-remain-below-pre-covid-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indias-september-diesel-consumption-remain-below-pre-covid-levels\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s September diesel consumption remain below pre-Covid levels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI (Reuters) &#8211; India&#8217;s gasoil consumption slowed in the first half of September from the previous month, staying below pre-COVID levels as a pick-up in monsoon rains hit mobility and demand for fuel from the agriculture sector, preliminary sales data showed.<\/p>\n<p>Diesel sales by the country&#8217;s state fuel retailers came in at 2.1 million tonnes during Sept. 1-15, a decline of about 1.5% from last year and down 6.8% from the same period in 2019, the data showed. <\/p>\n<p>State retailers Indian Oil Corp, Hindustan Petroleum Corp and Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd own about 90% of the country&#8217;s retail fuel outlets.<\/p>\n<p>Sales of gasoil, which accounts for about two-fifths of India&#8217;s overall refined fuel consumption, are directly linked to industrial activity in Asia&#8217;s third-largest economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI (Reuters) &#8211; India&#8217;s gasoil consumption slowed in the first half of September from the previous month, staying below pre-COVID levels as a pick-up in monsoon rains hit mobility and demand for fuel from the agriculture sector, preliminary sales data showed. Diesel sales by the country&#8217;s state fuel retailers came in at 2.1 million tonnes during Sept. 1-15, a decline of about 1.5% from last year and down 6.8% from the same period in 2019, the data showed. State retailers Indian Oil Corp, Hindustan Petroleum Corp and Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd own about 90% of the country&#8217;s retail fuel [&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-436450","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\/436450","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=436450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}