8How COVID-19 could change the economics of the plastic recycling sector?
8Here is an interesting analysis

8Creating global chemical and petrochemical hubs in India is the subject matter of a conference
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8The Indian chemicals industry is highly diversified, covering 80,000 products and employing more than 2 million people
8There are some interesting snippets:
8India is the second-largest manufacturer and exporter of dyes and accounts for ~16% of the world production
8Globally, India is the third-largest consumer of polymers, fourth-largest producer of agrochemicals and sixth-largest producer of chemicals
8What kind of opportunities exist in this sector?

8The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is considering regulating chemical recycling
8Some of the processors may not be processing much is the fear or processing plastics the wrong way
8Should India also regulate the recycling industry?

8Know more about Petronet LNG's petrochemical plans as well as an LNG terminal in the East Coast

8There is now a serious allegations that Big Oil and FMCG companies are using plastic recycling as a smokescreen to raise consumption of plastics
8And that FMCG companies are failing to transparently report the full climate impacts of their plastic packaging

8Nayara Energy has plans ahead
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8Get a complete roundup of petrochemical price movement today, across all products and all markets
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The hunt is on for a new CMD for Oil India Ltd is on
8Who could be the possible candidates?
8Also, know more about why the entire selection process has become a mockery of sorts

Domestic market sources reported a rise in Ahmedabad’s aniline prices today. 

Market sources reported that methanol prices were raised at Ahmedabad today.

8Movement has been noticed in Oil India Ltd's attempt to purchase of 2000-tonne onland drilling rigs
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8E&P subject matter experts are needed across a range of topics

8The U.S. Department of Justice has arrested the chief financial officer of Novatek, Russia’s largest private gas company and biggest LNG exporter, on charges of tax fraud
8He faces decades of prison

8Assam Gas Company is a monopoly gas supplier in the state, which despite the fact that it is a producing state, is not able to provide enough gas to its customers
8But there is much excitement now over the fact that a trunk line is coming in from the mainland

Here is a private sector company with an ambitious E&P plan (not Cairn India):
8Drilling of 30 new development wells
8Workover of 9 existing wells
 Development of surface facilities i.e. Early Gas Production Facilities (EGPFs)/ Quick Production Facilities (QPF) and Gas Collection Station (GCS) to facilate the production of produced hydrocarbons, their processing and sale. A peak production capacity up to 2385 m3/day crude oil and 2.83 MMSCMD of natural gas has been envisaged for the field the surface facilities would be constructed having capacity configured to handle peak production rate.

8The much needed financial relief sought by E&P bidders, both for LSTK contracts and services, on account of COVID has finally come through

8Clarifications even after technical bids have been opened are possible now in E&P bids

There is now growing resentment in some public sector oil companies over the government's insistence on putting their tenders in the GEM portal.
8Most PSUs are upset that GEM circumvents their own optimized SAP operated systems
8And there are problems galore with GEM too, as it is an all- size-fits-all portal while the oil & gas requirements are very specific

Focus Energy Ltd seems to have been able to get through its rough patch
8A Gas Sale Purchase Agreement (GSPA) with GAIL for supply of 0.95 mmscmd to RRUVNL has been approved
8The company has impressive 1.9 Tcf reserves

8DAP prices are at a decade high

8Cost of LNG imports have doubled over the last year for India

8Fresh regulations have come in for existing crude and petroleum pipelines
8In case of leakages, the cost is going to be high from now on