{"id":648393,"date":"2025-10-01T09:36:34","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T04:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=648393"},"modified":"2025-10-01T09:52:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T04:22:13","slug":"demand-for-natural-gas-falls-as-plants-opt-for-cheaper-fuels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/demand-for-natural-gas-falls-as-plants-opt-for-cheaper-fuels\/","title":{"rendered":"Demand for natural gas falls as plants opt for cheaper fuels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s industrial demand for natural gas is weakening as factories increasingly turn to cheaper alternatives such as LPG and wood briquettes. <\/p>\n<p>With crude steady at $65-70 a barrel, gas has become relatively expensive, pushing many industries towards liquid fuels like LPG and light diesel oil. Subsidised farm-waste briquettes-about a third cheaper than gas-are also gaining traction, according to industry executives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s industrial demand for natural gas is weakening as factories increasingly turn to cheaper alternatives such as LPG and wood briquettes. With crude steady at $65-70 a barrel, gas has become relatively expensive, pushing many industries towards liquid fuels like LPG and light diesel oil. Subsidised farm-waste briquettes-about a third cheaper than gas-are also gaining traction, according to industry executives.<\/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":[130,191,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648393","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\/648393","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=648393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}