{"id":655921,"date":"2025-12-09T09:11:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T03:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=655921"},"modified":"2025-12-09T10:25:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T04:55:38","slug":"city-gas-firms-race-ahead-on-cng-lag-on-home-connections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/city-gas-firms-race-ahead-on-cng-lag-on-home-connections\/","title":{"rendered":"City gas firms race ahead on CNG, lag on home connections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: India&#8217;s city gas firms are racing ahead on lucrative CNG stations but slow on low-margin home connections, driven by both operational difficulty and the very different competitive landscape the two segments face. <\/p>\n<p>City gas distributors have overshot their target for CNG stations by 44% but fallen short of household piped-gas connections by 57%. As of October-end, companies had connected a cumulative 15.7 million households against a target of 36.3 million, according to the Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB) data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: India&#8217;s city gas firms are racing ahead on lucrative CNG stations but slow on low-margin home connections, driven by both operational difficulty and the very different competitive landscape the two segments face. City gas distributors have overshot their target for CNG stations by 44% but fallen short of household piped-gas connections by 57%. As of October-end, companies had connected a cumulative 15.7 million households against a target of 36.3 million, according to the Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB) data.<\/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-655921","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\/655921","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=655921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}