NEW DELHI, July 1 (Reuters) – India’s gasoline and diesel sales continued to rise in June, according to preliminary data from the Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell of the federal oil ministry.
• Gasoline sales surged 7% in June from a year earlier to about 3.77 million metric tons.
• Sales of diesel, mostly used by trucks, rose to 8.55 million tons, up 5.52% from June last year, the data showed.
• Sales of jet fuel fell 0.6% to 726,000 tons.
• Indian refiners’ sales of liquefied petroleum gas, mainly used as a cooking fuel, declined 16.7% to 2.18 million tons as the government regulated use of the fuel amid supply disruptions from the Middle East.
(Reporting by Nidhi Verma; Editing by Emelia Sithole-Matarise)
