India’s domestic production of petroleum coke is reported as 0.91 million tonnes (mn t) in September 2020, against 1.11 mn t in the same month last year, registering a sizeable reduction of over 18%.
Moreover, cumulative pet coke production in Apr-Sep’20 has been 5.79 mn t, compared with 6.79 mn t in the corresponding period of the last year, registering a reduction of 14.7%.
Furthermore, pet coke production in Sep’20 is lower by 25.4%, as compared to the average monthly production of 1.22 mn t recorded in FY 2019-20.
However, the production in Sep’20 has shown nominal increase by 2.2% as compared to the production of 0.89 mn t in the previous month of August 2020.
Pet coke production has been affected following the restrictions imposed due to Covid-19. However, the graded unlocking process has improved in different stages and now with the Unlock 4.0 starting w.e.f. 1st Sep’20, the government has permitted some more relaxations for economic activities with suitable guidelines and protocols. It is expected that pet coke production will increase in coming months amidst the improvement in overall Covid-19 situation.
Productions have been at different levels at various pet coke producing refineries across the country. The Covid-19 situation has not only affected the production of pet coke but there has been overall reduction in crude throughput affecting the total production of petroleum products.
However, the overall production of petroleum products has consistently increased month after month during the three-month period from Apr-Jul’20. The total domestic production of all petroleum products is reported as 16.0 mn t, 17.3 mn t, 18.7 mn t and 19.4 mn t in the months of Apr’20, May’20, Jun’20 and Jul’20 respectively.
Pet coke production is graphically represented month-wise for FY21 vs FY20 in the abovementioned featured image.
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