Domestic market sources reported a rise in Mumbai’s MEG prices today. 

An increase in cyclohexane prices has been noted in Mumbai today.

C9 solvent prices moved higher today in the Mumbai chemical market.

8Get a complete roundup of petrochemical price movement today, across all products and all markets
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8Get a complete roundup of chemical price movement today, across all products and all markets
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8Adani Industries massive coal-based PVC project is finally getting off the ground
8Wheels of the government are moving on this project, and it looks like serious action is right ahead

8Major chemicals production saw a growth of 54% April to June, 2021 over the same period last year
8Major petrochemicals grew 28%
8Find out what is going on with the sector

8Haldia Petrochemicals claims it will invest a massive $30 billion in building petrochemical hubs
8Find out more on what is up with the company
8The company itself has high ratings from now, quite a change from how the situation was a few years ago
Read for a more strategic look at the company, and how fortunes have turned

8BPCL has pegged its investment portfolio at a massive 100,000 crore
8Of this Rs 30,000 crore will be in petrochemicals
8But the problem is, the company is to be privatized, and it will be the new owners who will decide the scale of investment
8But petrochemicals is a lucrative investment and every owner surely be willing to play along

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8PTA
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8Oxo Alcohols
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8MTBE
8Isomer-MX
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8Naphtha
8Ethanol

Get to know of the expansion plans of:
8Actavia Pharmaceuticals
8Ubia Lifesciences
8Sunrise Industries
8Asha Resins
8Global Calcium

8Under the terms of the Merger Agreement, Kraton stockholders will receive $46.50 in cash for each share of Kraton common stock they own

8Apart from the future growth potential, which might be driving the stock price performance to a great extent, there is no doubt that the earnings delivery of Indian Specialty Chemicals companies has been far superior compared to any other sector indices
8But there could be risks ahead

8U.S. chemical production dips slightly
8Production Regional Index (U.S. CPRI) fell 0.3% in August following a 1.1% gain in July and a 3.4% gain in June, according to the American Chemistry Council

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8Khaitan Chemicals is selling off a plant

8The website carries here our weekly outlook for BAM
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8The website carries here a weekly outlook on toluene prices
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It is a four-well drilling programme in this DSF field by Oil India Ltd in Tripura
8RFQs are expected ahead

US imports of LNG into India
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8There is panic buying of fuel as Britain faces several crises: an international gas price surge that is forcing energy firms out of business, a related shortage of carbon dioxide that threatens to derail meat production, and a shortage of truck drivers that is playing havoc with retailers and leaving some shelves bare
8So the post-COVID world is turning out to be a little scary at this juncture

NPK-DAP Greenfield Project
8Cost - Rs 987 crore
8Project Event: The project has elicited environmental clearance in August 2018, RFQ for the LSTK contractor is likely to be released in Q2 FY 2022.
DAP/NPK /Phosphoric acid Greenfield Project (New)
8Cost - Rs 500 crore
8Project Event: The project is under the process of environmental clearance, RFQ for the LSTK contractor for the DAP/NPK plant is likely to be released in Q3 FY 2021-22.

Work is going on in GAIL's 16.5 mmscmd, 1755 km Mumabi-Nagpur-Jharsuguda natural gas pipeline. Project cost: Rs. 7845 crore
8Some consultants and contractors are in place, but many RFQs are still ahead
8Get the names of the various contractors and service providers associated with this project to know if sub contracts are going to be available going ahead
8Commissioning is in 2023