Dec 9 Reuters India39;s fuel consumption, a proxy for oil demand, rose 10.2 yearonyear in November to 18.84 million tonnes, data from the Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell PPAC of the oil ministry showed on Friday.

Sales of gasoline, or petrol, were 8.1 higher at 2.86 million tonnes. Cooking gas or liquefied petroleum gas LPG sales increased 5.2 to 2.47 million tonnes, while naphtha sales fell 18.2 to 1.01 million tonnes.

Sales of bitumen, used for making roads, rose 30.3, while fuel oil use edged up 8.4 in November.

Reporting by Arpan Varghese and Brijesh Patel in Bengaluru; Editing by Toby Chopra

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