据经济时报12月22日消息：印度11月天然气消费量较上年同期增长2%，表明工业活动出现了反弹。
官方数据显示，消费量从去年11月的51亿立方米上升到52亿立方米。4月至11月期间的需求较去年同期下降近5%。
“随着经济活动恢复缓慢而稳定的增长，石油消费出现了增长。”石油部石油规划与分析部门在其月度报告中表示。
最初的需求复苏是由化肥、发电厂和炼油厂带动的。美国最大的天然气营销公司GAIL NSE市场总监E S Ranganathan表示:“由于封锁导致城市天然气需求急剧下降，随着新的城市天然气许可证持有人建立CNG加气站，城市天然气需求也开始回升。”
封锁限制了公共交通，在德里和孟买等大城市，公共交通是压缩天然气的主要消费者。由于学校仍在停课，大部分压缩天然气巴士仍未上路。但在新城市天然气许可证地区建立的新CNG泵将弥补这一赤字。从城市燃气分销商获得供应的小型工厂活动增加，也起到了帮助作用。
化肥是天然气最大的消耗者，约占30%，而电力约占20%。城市燃气分销商的份额已回升至18%，而炼油厂和石化产品的份额分别约为14%和6%。
印度天然气进口量占其天然气需求量的一半以上，国际价格连续数月走低也帮助提振了国内需求。现在国际市场上的天然气价格已经上涨，这可能对消费产生不利影响。
冯娟 摘译自 经济时报
原文如下：
India's natural gas consumption rises 2% in November from a year earlier
Natural gas consumption in the country has risen 2% in November from a year earlier, signalling a rebound in the industrial activity.
The consumption rose to 5.2 billion cubic meters (BCM) from 5.1 BCM last November, as per the official data. The demand for the April-November period is down nearly 5% from last year.
“There has been a growth in consumption as the economic activities regain slow and steady growth,” the oil ministry’s Petroleum Planning & Analysis Cell said in its monthly report.
The initial demand recovery was led by the fertilizer and power plants and refineries. “City gas demand that had sharply dropped due to the lockdown is also returning with new city gas licensees setting up CNG fuelling stations,” said E S Ranganathan, director (marketing) at GAIL NSE 3.31 %, the nation’s largest gas marketer.
Lockdown had curbed public transport, a key consumer of compressed natural gas in big cities like Delhi and Mumbai. With schools still shut, a big segment of CNG buses are still not Fertilizer is the biggest consumer with about 30% of all gas consumed while power takes about 20%. City gas distributors have recovered to 18% while refinery and petrochemicals take about 14% and 6% respectively.
The demand for natural gas for cooking at home has remained steady although it has fallen sharply for restaurants this year due to fewer people eating out.
India imports a little more than half of its natural gas requirement and lower international prices for many months also helped boost domestic demand. Rates of natural gas have risen in the international market now, which can have adverse effect on consumption.