据World Energy News网站12月14日新德里报道,由于价格折扣和节日季节购买提高了客运车辆销售,印度11月份燃料需求量在推动下比去年同期增加了6.4%。
印度石油部石油规划和分析办公室(PPAC)日前公布的统计数据显示,印度11月份的燃料消费总量达到了1480万吨。
印度燃料需求量的增加与世界第2大经济体中国不断下降的石油消费量形成了鲜明的对比。
国际能源署上个月曾说,印度将是全球今后几年能源需求增长的最重要驱动力。去年10月份,印度联邦政府终止了对柴油销售的补贴,并且自去年10月份起频繁变动零售价格,从而缩小了与汽油之间的定价缺口。
汽油或柴油消费量占到印度国内精炼燃料消费量的大约40%,其增长是过去5个月里最低的,只增加了1.6%至610万吨。
李 峻 编译
原文如下:
India's Fuel Demand Rose in November
World Energy News December 14, 2015
India's fuel demand rose 6.4 percent in November compared with the same month last year, driven by higher sales of gasoline as discounts and festive season buying boosted passenger vehicle sales.
Consumption of fuel, a proxy for oil demand, totalled 14.8 million tonnes, data from the Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell (PPAC) of the oil ministry showed.
The rise in India's fuel demand is in contrast with sagging oil consumption in China, the world's second biggest economy.
The International Energy Agency last month said India would be the most important driver of energy demand growth in the world in the years to come. India's federal government ended subsidies on diesel sales in October last year and since then frequent changes in retail prices have narrowed the pricing gap with gasoline.
Consumption of gasoil or diesel, which makes up about 40 percent of refined fuels used in India, grew at its lowest in five months, rising 1.6 percent to 6.1 million tonnes.