INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Sales of gasoline, or petrol, were 4.6 per cent higher from a year earlier at 2.33 million tonnes.Domestic fuel demand rose 4 per cent in
October compared with the same month last year.Consumption of fuel, a proxy for oil demand, totalled 17.99 million tonnes, data from the
Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell (PPAC) of the oil ministry showed.Sales of gasoline, or petrol, were 4.6 per cent higher from a year
earlier at 2.33 million tonnes.Cooking gas or liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) sales increased 4.8 per cent to 2.07 million tonnes, while
naphtha sales surged 4.6 per cent to 1.23 million tonnes.Sales of bitumen, used for making roads, were 42.9 per cent up, while fuel oil use
edged lower 0.5 per cent in October.(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by TheIndianSubcontinent staff and is published
