On July 21, 2021, the Kandla market witnessed a rise in MIBK  prices.

New benzene prices have been announced at Vizag.

Prices for DEG have been reduced at Hazira.

The Mumbai chemical market saw a rise in Ethyl Acrylate prices today.

New ethyl acetate prices have been announced at Chennai.

A revision in ethyl acetate prices has been announced at Ahmedabad.

Reduced ethyl acetate prices were recorded in Delhi today.

Fresh LLDPE is being offered In Nepal.

A producer from South Asian is heard to have announced its offer for PP Yarn.

A South Asian producer offers HDPE In Nepal.

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8Saudi Arabian major Saudi Aramco seems to be in a severe debt squeeze
8So much so that it had to give up on some heavy duty investments, including a $6.6 billion petrochem expansion
8In this context, can it shell out money for a piece of RIL's oil to chemicals business or pick up a significant stake in the Ratanagiri refinery promoted by IOC, HPCL and BPCL?

On July 20, 2021, Aniline prices increased in the Kolkata market.

8Liquid nitrogen is required in bulk by a petrochemical plant
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8The Gulf Petrochemicals & Chemicals Association is a powerful body
8And will it pay dividends as an Indian manufacturer or trader to join it?

8The Indian government’s Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has developed plant-based packaging as an alternative to single-use plastics

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8Naphtha
8MTBE
8Toluene
8Isomer Mixed Xylenes
8Ethanol

8Why are base oil prices flaring up?
8There is a consistent upward trend in feedstock prices
8Supply constraints do not help
8Get a full analysis here

ONGC's EOI for a FEED for its ultra-deepwater Cluster-3 development of the KG-DWN-98/2 block could attract only a handful of bidders.
8Not a lot of work has been done in this water depth and no project is under commercial production as yet anywhere in the world
8Work has been done in the Gulf of Mexico only and in some parts of the Asia Pacific Region
8Find out which companies have shown interest in working with ONGC on this
8And the uncertainty level is so high, that no one can dare provide a cost estimate which is more than 50-60% accurate
8A few Indian companies may be roped in to provide local content for the work

8This refinery major astutely limited competition to relevant EPC players but excluding players from another segment under its qualifying criteria
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Custody transfer of LNG is never an easy job
8Freshly revised data and details carried here will help customers also re-write their purchase and sales agreements

The Chhara LNG terminal is entirely dependent on an 86 km pipeline that Gujarat State Petronet LNG Ltd is building
8The pipeline is still going through environmental clearance as of now, and the sensitive part is that it traverses through Gir wildlife sanctuary for length of 25 kms
8There is an urgency to getting the pipeline going, or else the terminal will be ready before the pipeline is

8A requirement has come up for well construction supply and services for development, appraisal and exploration campaigns
8What is needed are integrated services

8The government is conducting a hybrid roadshow on E&P opportunities in India. Also accompanying this will be a presentation on ease of doing business in Gujarat.
8The question is why not include other oil-bearing states such as Assam and Tripura?