India's fuel demand rises 3.8 per cent in February

Fuel consumption in Feb totalled 17.41 million tonnes as compared to 16.77 million tonnes in same month last year.

India's fuel demand rose 6.4 per cent year-on-year in January

Cooking gas or liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) sales increased 11.0 per cent to 2.31 million tones.

The $125 billion import bill for the current financial year is high but it is still not the right estimate.

Lower local sales of petrol and diesel curbed growth in India’s overall fuel demand to 1.1 per cent in Sept.

Fuel consumption in June totalled 17.99 million tonne as compared to 16.56 MT in the same month last year.

Sales of gasoline, or petrol, were 2.0 per cent higher from a year earlier at 2.46 million tonnes.

Excise duty on petrol was hiked by Rs 11.77 per litre and that on diesel by 13.47 a litre since Nov 2014.

India had imported 213.93 million tonnes (MT) of crude oil 2016-17 for USD 70.196 billion or Rs 4.7 lakh crore.

Cooking gas or liquefied petroleum gas sales increased 6.0 per cent to 2.06 million tonnes.

Sales of gasoline, or petrol, were 4.8 per cent higher from a year earlier at 2.12 million tonnes.