India's fuel product consumption rises 2.8% in June 2015

Overall fuel products consumption up 5.2% in April-June 2015

India's fuel product consumption or sales increased 2.8% to 14.404 mt in June 2015 over a year ago. Petrol sales jumped 9.9% to 1.77 mt, while LPG sales galloped 10.2% to 1.49 mt. Sales of petcoke advanced 8.1% to 1.21 mt and aviation turbine fuel (ATF) improved 3.9% to 0.47 mt. Consumption of diesel moved up 2.5% to 6.29 mt, while that of lubricants gained 32% to 0.25 mt. However, the consumption of kerosene declined 4.8% to 0.57 mt, bitumen 19.4% to 0.42 mt, naphtha 5.6% to 0.89 mt, fuel oil 5.2% to 0.49 mt and other products 4.5% to 0.52 mt.

Consumption or sales of fuel product increased 5.2% to 44.3 mt in April-June 2015 over April-June 2014. Sales of petrol increased 12.3%, diesel 3.6%, pet coke 11.1%, and LPG 8.5%. Consumption of naphtha also moved up 10.8%, lubricants 15.9%, ATF 3.4%, and other products 0.9%, but declined for bitumen 8.4%, fuel oil 3.5%, and kerosene 3.4%.

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