India’s fuel consumption showed negligible growth in December, ahead of fresh curbs kicking in to control the surge of a new variant of COVID-19, according to the data.
The data further said that the total petroleum product consumption was 18.43 million tonnes, as against 18.36 million tonnes a year earlier.
Diesel, accounting for almost 40% of all petroleum product usage, 1.5% to 7.305 million tonnes (MT) and was near the pre-COVID-19 demand of 7.387 MT December 2019, data from the Petroleum Planing and Analysis Cell showed.
Petrol sales, which crossed the pre-COVID-19 level a few months ago, was up 4 per cent to 2.81 million tonnes in December 2021.
(With inputs from IANS)
