The basket of crude oil India buys rose above $102 per barrel on March 1, the highest since August 2014, according to information from the Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell (PPAC) of the oil ministry.
Sales of gasoline, or petrol, were 0.7% lower from a year earlier at 2.65 million tonnes, while diesel sales slipped 7.6% year-on-year to 6.51 million tonnes, the data showed.
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Fuel consumption totalled 15.92 million tonnes last month, up slightly from August and 5.2 per cent higher than in September 2020, as per data on the Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell (PPAC) website.