India's January fuel demand drops to 3-month low
India's January fuel consumption hit its lowest monthly level since October, but was up 3.2% year-on-year at 20.49 MM tonnes, oil ministry data showed on Friday.
India is the world's third-largest consumer and importer of oil. The data is a proxy for the country's oil demand.
On a monthly basis, January fuel demand was its lowest since October, down more than 1% from 20.73 MMt in December, the Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell's (PPAC) website shows.
Sales of gasoline, or petrol, eased 0.3% compared to last month at 3.3 MMt.
Diesel consumption fell nearly 4% month-on-month to 7.7 MMt in January. It was up 4.3% year-on-year.
Cooking gas or liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) sales increased 5.2% on an annual basis to 2.84 MMt, while naphtha sales fell 12.2% compared with last year to 1.15 MMt.
On a monthly basis, LPG and naphtha sales rose 2.16% and 7.48% respectively.
DOMESTIC SALES (in million tons):
|
2025 |
2024 |
2024 |
2024 |
2023 |
2023 |
|
|
JAN |
DEC |
NOV |
JAN |
DEC |
NOV |
|
|
Diesel |
7.74 |
8.06 |
8.17 |
7.42 |
7.60 |
7.53 |
|
Petrol |
3.31 |
3.32 |
3.43 |
3.10 |
2.99 |
3.13 |
|
LPG |
2.84 |
2.78 |
2.67 |
2.70 |
2.63 |
2.49 |
|
Naphtha |
1.15 |
1.07 |
1.10 |
1.31 |
1.39 |
1.05 |
|
Jet fuel |
0.78 |
0.78 |
0.75 |
0.72 |
0.72 |
0.69 |
|
Kerosene |
0.04 |
0.04 |
0.04 |
0.04 |
0.04 |
0.05 |
|
Fuel Oil |
0.55 |
0.57 |
0.50 |
0.56 |
0.57 |
0.51 |
|
Bitumen |
0.77 |
0.79 |
0.71 |
0.75 |
0.74 |
0.62 |
|
TOTAL |
20.49 |
20.73 |
20.66 |
19.86 |
20.25 |
18.68 |
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