24% reduced demand for gasoline during the curfew February 27, 2021 Anwar Gasim, researcher in the Climate and Environment Program at the King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center (KAPSARC). RIYADH — Anwar Gasim, a researcher in the Climate and Environment Program at the King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center (KAPSARC), revealed that the demand for kerosene decreased by 46% and gasoline by 24% in March 2020 compared with the same month in 2019, due to the COVID-19 restriction measures that Saudi Arabia had taken in that month. He explained to the Al-Watan newspaper that the demand for liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), diesel, fuel oil and other oil products did not change during that period. LPG is used in the residential sector and in bakeries as cooking gas, and in the petrochemical sector as feedstock.