Did India's petroleum coke sales fall in 2025-26, and which sectors and sellers account for the tonnes?
The Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell (PPAC) shows India's petroleum coke sales down 16.4% in 2025-26, from 22,002 to 18,401 thousand metric tonnes (TMT). Cement kept its 16% share both years, so its tonnes fell by about the same 16%. The fall sits with private sellers, down from 15,045 to 11,445; public sector undertaking (PSU) sales stayed near 6,956.
The two years, as the Ready Reckoner prints them
- Table 6.1 gives petcoke consumption in million metric tonnes (MMT) for 2014-15 to 2025-26: 14.6, 19.3, 24.0, 25.7, 21.3, 21.7, 15.6, 14.3, 18.3, 20.3, 22.0 and 18.4. The peak is 25.7 in 2017-18 and the low 14.3 in 2021-22.
- Table 6.2 prints the 2025-26 change as minus 16.4%, the year before as plus 8.3%, and the compound yearly change from 2015-16 to 2025-26 as minus 0.5%.
- Table 6.8 prints the thousand-tonne figures: 22,002 for 2024-25 and 18,401 for 2025-26.
Who sold it
Table 6.8 splits sales between public sector undertakings (PSU) and private sellers. In 2025-26: PSU 6,956 and private 11,445, so private is 62.2%. In 2024-25: PSU 6,958 and private 15,045, so private was 68.4%. The table's note says private includes direct imports as well as marketing by private oil companies.
Elsewhere the Reckoner says the whole quantity of petcoke imported in 2025-26 came from private importers, and that the fall in total product imports was driven mainly by lower petcoke and fuel oil imports. It does not split the sales table into domestic and imported tonnes, so do not read one into the other.
Which sectors
The sector charts give shares of sales, in whole percent. 2025-26: cement 16%, agriculture 5%, mining and quarrying 1%, chemicals and allied 4%, iron and steel 2%, miscellaneous 72%. 2024-25: cement 16%, agriculture 4%, mining and quarrying 1%, chemicals and allied 3%, iron and steel 1%, miscellaneous 75%.
Cement's share is steady at 16%, so its tonnes fell with the total: about 2,944 TMT in 2025-26 against about 3,520. Most of the fall, about 3,250 of the 3,601, is in miscellaneous. The Reckoner does not say who is in that group, and it does not say why sales fell. Our reading: do not place a lime, ceramic or refractory unit in any named slice.
What it changes in your records
Nothing in your factor or your tonnes. Your Scope 1 is your own petcoke tonnes times a factor for petcoke, whatever national sales do. If supply or price moves you to coal, briquettes or gas, keep each fuel as its own monthly line so the switch shows up cleanly. The Reckoner also says fuel grade petcoke is used as fuel in cement kilns and power plants, and calcined petcoke in aluminium, graphite electrode, steel, titanium dioxide and other carbon consuming industries; check which grade is on your invoice.
Arithmetic from the printed figures
- Total: 18,401 minus 22,002 = minus 3,601 TMT, which is minus 16.4%
- Private: 11,445 minus 15,045 = minus 3,600 TMT, minus 23.9%. PSU: 6,956 minus 6,958 = minus 2
- Private share: 11,445 / 18,401 = 62.2%; 15,045 / 22,002 = 68.4%
- Cement: 16% of 18,401 = about 2,944; 16% of 22,002 = about 3,520
- Miscellaneous: 72% of 18,401 = about 13,249; 75% of 22,002 = about 16,502; fall about 3,253
Sector tonnes come from whole-percent shares, so each is only good to roughly 100 TMT; the miscellaneous fall is about 3,250 give or take about 200. The 2024-25 table rows add to 22,003 against the printed 22,002, a rounding gap.
What Senseible does here
Senseible reads petcoke invoices into records beside your coal, briquette or gas lines. It has no sourced petcoke factor yet, so that line shows as Missing. It does not forecast fuel supply or price.
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Last reviewed 2026-11-05. Figures are PPAC's for April to March 2025-26 and may be revised in the next Ready Reckoner. Sector tonnes are derived from rounded shares and are marked approximate.