INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
in July compared with the same month last year.Consumption of fuel, a proxy for oil demand, totalled 17.58 million tonnes, data from the
Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell (PPAC) of the oil ministry showed.Sales of gasoline, or petrol, were 8.8 per cent higher from a year
earlier at 2.52 million tonnes.Cooking gas or liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) sales increased 9.0 per cent to 2.22 million tonnes, while
naphtha sales fell 5.2 percent to 1.22 million tonnes.Sales of bitumen, used for making roads, were 36.4 per cent up, while fuel oil use
edged up 8.3 percent in July.Get Breaking news, live coverage, and Latest News from India and around the world on TheIndianSubcontinent.com
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