{"id":518677,"date":"2022-09-02T10:58:26","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T05:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=518677"},"modified":"2022-09-02T10:58:26","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T05:28:26","slug":"state-run-oil-companies-post-strong-august-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/state-run-oil-companies-post-strong-august-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"State-run oil companies post strong August sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State-run oil companies sold 16% more petrol and 23.5% more diesel in August over last year as economic activity gathered pace and as sales at private retailers slumped. Petrol sales were 20.6% higher than in August of 2019 while diesel sales were 11.6% higher, according to the preliminary sales data obtained from state-run oil companies.<\/p>\n<p>State-run companies registered strong retail sales growth partly due to a shift in demand from private oil companies that are less keen to serve customers at a time when domestic fuel prices can\u2019t rise in sync with the international market, as per industry executives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State-run oil companies sold 16% more petrol and 23.5% more diesel in August over last year as economic activity gathered pace and as sales at private retailers slumped. Petrol sales were 20.6% higher than in August of 2019 while diesel sales were 11.6% higher, according to the preliminary sales data obtained from state-run oil companies. State-run companies registered strong retail sales growth partly due to a shift in demand from private oil companies that are less keen to serve customers at a time when domestic fuel prices can\u2019t rise in sync with the international market, as per industry executives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"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-518677","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\/518677","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}