India’s deadly COVID-19 outbreak and widening localized lockdowns have soured the country’s economic growth outlook, stifled its natural gas demand and resulted in more LNG carriers being diverted by gas companies, an analysis by S&P Global Platts showed. Receive daily email alerts, subscriber notes & personalize your experience. Register Now On May 8, the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu — one of the country’s most industrialized and among its largest by GDP — imposed a two-week lockdown amid growing infections, joining several other states that have taken similar measures. Tamil Nadu is home to Petronet LNG’s Kochi terminal with a capacity of around 5 million mt/year, and market participants expect the lockdown to hurt industrial and city gas […]