Sulphuric Acid and Captive Power Unit Expansion Project
8Cost - Rs 300 crore
8Project Event: The project is still awaiting environmental clearance, public hearing has been completed. Internal discussion is ongoing. RFQ for the PMC contractor is likely to be released in November 2021. 
SSP Expansion Project 
8Cost - Rs 21 crore
8Project Event: The project is under environmental clearance. Public hearing is likely to be completed in November 2021. The RFQ for the local contractor is likely to be released after environmental clearance, which is likely to be elicited in December 2021.

8Basant Agro manufactures and markets fertilisers, such as NPK compounds and SSP, under the ‘Krishi Sanjivani’ brand in Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. It is also engaged in the R&D, processing and marketing of hybrid and high-yield variety of seeds. The company’s facilities at Akola, Sangli and Jalgaon (all in Maharashtra), Hospet (Karnataka) and  Neemuch (Madhya Pradesh), have a combined manufacturing capacity of 150,000 tonne per annum (tpa) of NPK granulated mixture, and 339,000 tpa of SSP
8The company is also engaged in generating alternative energy through wind mills, and in operating warehouses and cold storage facilities
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8Why did this consultancy job for a brand new LNG terminal did not elicit a good response?
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8CVO of a public sector fertilizer company gets another two years

8LNG imports are more than 40 percent more expensive in September this year compared to the same period last year
8Volumes are lower too. This is so, even as little or no spot imports are taking place

8Green ammonia is no longer just a laboratory experiment
8Plans have been unveiled for a major green ammonia project in Sweden
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8Rama Phosphates Limited gets approval to expand SSP and GSSP capacity
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8Energy producing nations have pledged to collaborate with India in its efforts to move towards the twin goals of energy security and decarbonization, but added that surging oil prices is a wake-up call to ensure the flow of plentiful investments into the sector in coming years.

8The stunning recent runup in global oil prices could threaten economic growth, and is unlikely to retreat until 2023, the World Bank said Thursday.

8Oil prices resumed their climb on Friday on continued tightness in U.S. supply, but were headed for a flat finish on the week as coal and gas prices eased, curbing fuel-switching which had stoked demand for oil products for power.

8On October 17, three railway rakes carrying di-ammonium phosphate (DAP) were dispatched from Gujarat’s Mundra, Pipavav, and Kandla ports to Kanakpura, a station in Rajasthan catering to the mustard-growing areas of Jaipur, Tonk, Ajmer, and Sawai Madhopur districts.

8State-owned GAIL (India) Ltd will build India's largest green hydrogen-making plant as it looks to supplement ‎its natural gas business with carbon-free fuel. Speaking at India Energy Forum by CERAWeek, GAIL chairman and managing director Manoj Jain said the company has floated a global tender to procure an electrolyser.

The international crude oil price of Indian Basket was quoted at around $83.28 per barrel on October 22, 2021.

IPA prices were quoted lower in the Ahmedabad market.

Petrochem sources in Kandla have reported a rise in propylene glycol prices.

IPA prices in Hazira have fallen sharply.

Low MIBK  prices were recorded in the Kandla market. 

A huge fall in VAM prices in the imported market of Mumbai was noted on October 21, 2021.

Petrochem sources in Mumbai have reported a significant lift in aniline prices. 

On October 22, 2021, Petrochem sources reported a huge fall in acetic acid prices in the Mumbai market.

MEK prices witnessed a huge fall in the Kandla market today.

Styrene Monomer prices have been reduced at Hazira.

On October 22, 2021, Petrochem sources confirmed that hexane prices had risen in the Kandla port.

Acrylonitrile prices registered a sharp fall in the imported market of Mumbai. 

Cyclohexanone prices in the Mumbai market have registered a fall today.