China has not allowed ships with Indian crews to berth in its ports
8There is an "unofficial ban".

8Gas leak from a pipeline of the state-run ONGC at Dhananjoynagar in South Tripura district triggered panic on Friday, officials said. Locals saw in the morning that gas was gushing out of the pipeline.

8Indian Oil has said it will complete the final phase of Ennore LNG pipeline by February, 2022 which will link Ennore and Ramnad.

8Indian companies are boosting their spending budgets, drawing confidence from the swift rebound in demand after the deadly second wave of the pandemic.

8Saudi Arabian state oil producer Aramco has reported a near four-fold rise in second-quarter net profit on Sunday, beating expectations and boosted by higher oil prices and a recovery in oil demand.

The biggest demand boost for gas is coming from the fertilizer sector in the months ahead
8Four additional cargoes of LNG are expected to be needed from now till may 2022

8IFFCO has dispatched the first consignment of nano urea liquid to Assam
8Know more

8A tender inviting MOP supply has come up

8A shortage of fertilisers is looming on the back of skyrocketing international prices whose effects, it is feared, may be felt during the coming rabi season ahead of the February-March Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Uttarakhand. The supply crunch is due to the overall bullish global agri-commodity markets, a “temporary suspension’ of exports by China and western economic sanctions against Belarus.

8Five ammonia shipments are heading towards India
8GSFC, RCF, IIFCO to receive one cargo each
8Coromandel International has two cargoes lined up

8Our website carries a daily update on ammonia shipments
8Receivers are mostly fertilizer companies

8Three shipments totaling 66.5k MT of LPG were unloaded last week at Haldia
8IOCL received around 2 lakh MT of LPG coming from assorted ports

8LNG prices are at the highest levels for this time of the year in the last eight years
8Usually, Indian buyers are staying away but some technical buying in taking place

Two cargoes each from GAIL and GSFC are expected to be unloaded in the days ahead
8A cargo out of Soyo is unloading for Arcelor Mital Nippon Steel India Ltd. at Hazira
8IOCL's LNG cargo is heading towards Dahej

GSPC is bringing in an LNG cargo from Bonny
8And the intermediary is Nigerial LNG Ltd

Close to 5.8 million MT of crude oil is expected to arrive in India soon
8Out of which Sikka port will receive 1.26 million MT
8Mundra port is expected to receive 0.4 million MT of crude oil
8Other ports expected to receive crude oil are:
8Paradip - 1.1 million MT
8Vadinar - 0.65 million MT
8Mumbai - 0.43 million MT
8New Mangalore - 0.18 million MT
8Cochin - 0.66 million MT
8Chennai - 0.13 million MT
8Visakhapatnam - 0.25 million MT

8BPCL is importing several crude cargoes
8Mumbai and Cochin are the landing terminals

8GSFC is importing urea in bulk
8The 52500 tonne cargo is coming from Qalhat

8IFFCO's Paradip terminal is importing a significant quantity of rock phosphate
8The material is coming in from Casablanca and Aqaba

8We are currently tracking around 1.15 million tonnes of fertilizer imports
8And this is as of today's evening data
8And these are coming in from all over the world

India imports a wide variety of chemicals
8From paraxylene to acetic acid to benzene to butadiene to methanol to sulphuric acid to hexane to base oil to caustic soda to styrene monomer to ethanol
8And as of today evening we are tracking 7.28 lakh MT of chemical imports

8JNPT port will see an assorted range of chemicals coming in over the next few days
8And these will include: mix xylene, acetic acid, MDC, CBFS among others

8Pon Pure is importing two mixed chemical cargoes
8Find out what chemicals are getting imported

The international crude oil price of Indian Basket was quoted at around $69.67 per barrel on August 9, 2021.

On August 09, 2021 Naphtha prices registered a downward movement in Europe while moving up in Japan owing to fluctuation in the markets.