据1月10日Oil Now报道，2020年，随着新冠肺炎疫情冲击，导致企业和工厂关闭，需求受损，印度的石油消费量20多年来首次出现下降。
根据彭博社对印度石油部，石油规划和分析小组公布的初步数据的计算，2020年石油总需求比2019年下降10.8%，至1.934亿吨，为五年来低点。这也是自1999年有记录以来首次出现年度下滑。
亚洲第二大石油进口国在3月份实施了世界上最严格的全国隔离检疫措施后，该国的石油燃料消费量暴跌了70%。而油价下跌导致石油化工工厂大幅削减原油加工和运营。
严格的限制措施对印度经济造成了严重破坏，印度年度国内生产总值(GDP)将出现1952年以来的最大收缩。当前，印度已经放松了大部分的限制措施，旨在将这个亚洲第三大经济体拉出衰退的泥沼。
随着限制措施的放松，印度市场需求正在回升。作为原油需求指标的石油燃料月度消费量较2019年12月下降了约1.8%，达到11个月来的高点。
由于私家车使用量增加，2020年12月份汽油消费量同比增长9.3%，为2019年5月以来的最高水平，柴油需求较2019年同期下降2.8%。
王佳晶 摘译自 Oil New
原文如下：
India’s annual oil consumption falls for first time in 21 years
India’s petroleum consumption fell for the first time in more than two decades in 2020 as the coronavirus pandemic shuttered businesses and factories, hurting demand from Total petroleum demand declined 10.8% last year from 2019 and was at a five-year low of 193.4 million tons, according to Bloomberg calculations of provisional data published by the oil ministry’s Petroleum Planning & Analysis Cell. The annual contraction was the first Consumption of petroleum fuels by Asia’s second-biggest oil importer collapsed by as much as 70% after it embarked The strict restrictions ravaged the Indian economy, which is set for its biggest contraction in annual gross domestic product in records going back to 1952. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has relaxed most of the curbs to pull Asia’s third-biggest economy out of the slump.
Demand is picking up as restrictions are eased. Monthly consumption of petroleum fuels, a proxy of crude oil demand, was about 1.8% short of previous year’s levels in December and touched an 11-month high.
Gasoline consumption last month rose 9.3% year-on-year, the highest since May 2019, on increased use of personal vehicles. Diesel demand was 2.8% lower from a year earlier.