{"id":647106,"date":"2025-09-20T09:46:32","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T04:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=647106"},"modified":"2025-09-20T09:51:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T04:21:04","slug":"bitumen-demand-surges-47-in-august-as-road-construction-activity-picks-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/bitumen-demand-surges-47-in-august-as-road-construction-activity-picks-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitumen demand surges 47% in August as road construction activity picks up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bitumen demand surged 47% in August after decreasing in April-July as rains eased, signalling a recovery in road construction. <\/p>\n<p>Consumption increased to 0.42 million metric tonnes (MMT) in August from 0.29 MMT a year earlier, according to petroleum and natural gas ministry data. Imports of bitumen jumped 49% during the month, with about a third of the country&#8217;s total consumption met through overseas purchases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitumen demand surged 47% in August after decreasing in April-July as rains eased, signalling a recovery in road construction. Consumption increased to 0.42 million metric tonnes (MMT) in August from 0.29 MMT a year earlier, according to petroleum and natural gas ministry data. Imports of bitumen jumped 49% during the month, with about a third of the country&#8217;s total consumption met through overseas purchases.<\/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":[130,193,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647106","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=647106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}