{"id":96990,"date":"2017-01-16T11:54:36","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T11:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=96990"},"modified":"2017-01-16T11:54:36","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T11:54:36","slug":"fuel-consumption-to-hit-200-mn-tonnes-in-2016-17-oil-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/fuel-consumption-to-hit-200-mn-tonnes-in-2016-17-oil-ministry\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuel consumption to hit 200 mn tonnes in 2016-17: Oil ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s fuel consumption is likely to hit 200 million tonnes in 2016-17, an oil ministry executive said on Monday, in what would be the highest such level in at least 16 years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Demand for petroleum products is increasing as the economy grows. India has the best growth amongst the large economies in the world &#8230; we have massive hunger for petroleum products,&#8221; said oil ministry Additional Secretary A K Sawhney.<\/p>\n<p>India&#8217;s fuel consumption surged 10.9 per cent to 183.5 million tonnes in 2015-16.<\/p>\n<p>A level of 200 million tones would compare to over 750 million tonnes in the United States last year and 500 million tonnes in China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s fuel consumption is likely to hit 200 million tonnes in 2016-17, an oil ministry executive said on Monday, in what would be the highest such level in at least 16 years. &#8220;Demand for petroleum products is increasing as the economy grows. India has the best growth amongst the large economies in the world &#8230; we have massive hunger for petroleum products,&#8221; said oil ministry Additional Secretary A K Sawhney. India&#8217;s fuel consumption surged 10.9 per cent to 183.5 million tonnes in 2015-16. A level of 200 million tones would compare to over 750 million tonnes in the United States [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oil-gas"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96990","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}