Covid-19 impact: India crude oil production plummets 5.5% in March

The cumulative crude oil production during 2019-20 was 32.1 million tonne, 5.95 per cent lower than production of 34.2 mt during the corresponding period of last year

At a time when the global crude oil price is heading south, India's crude oil and natural gas production in 2019-20 dropped 6.1 per cent and 5.2 per cent, respectively, over 2018-19. Affected also by the Covid-19 lockdown, crude oil production dropped 5.5 per cent and natural gas 14.38 per cent in March over the equivalent period in 2019.
 

According to the data released by the Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell (PPAC), crude oil production in 2019-20 was 32.1 million tonnes (mt), 6.1 per cent lower than the 34.2 mt in 2018-19.
 

On the other hand, cumulative natural gas production