 "India's fuel demand rose 4.3% in December")
India's fuel demand rose 4.3 per cent in December compared with the same month last year.
Consumption of fuel, a proxy for oil demand, totalled 16.53 million tonnes, data from the Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell (PPAC) of the oil ministry showed.
Sales of gasoline, or petrol, were 7.7% higher from a year earlier at 1.96 million tonnes.
Cooking gas or liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) sales increased 7.9% to 1.94 million tonnes, while naphtha sales surged 5.5% to 1.08 million tonnes.
Sales of bitumen, used for making roads, were 2.1% lower, while fuel oil use edged up 14.0% in December.