On July 2, 2021 MEG prices moved up in JNPT

Fresh benzene prices have been announced at Vizag

DEG prices have been raised at Hazira

A  producer from the Saudi Arabia is heard to have announced its offer for PP in Sri Lanka.

Latest LLDPE is being offered in Nepal.

A producer from South Asia has offered its HDPE in Nepal

A South Asian producer is heard to have offered its HDPE in Nepal.

8The website carries a detailed coverage of petrochemical prices
8Get the full list here, as of today

8Get here the complete chemical price matrix for the day

8What is the latest update on IOC tender for small LNG tankages
8Quite a few bidders had shown interest and it looks like the winners have been selected

The Panipat refinery expansion project has seen a lot of bidders lining up
8This is the next big petrochemical project coming up
8Find out who participated in a pre-bid meeting recently, and who are in the race for the EPCM tenders

The government should be mindful of the rules governing the appointment of directors to boards of directors of public sector companies.
8For one, even for directors who have executive functions, the appointments have been delayed because there was no PESB chairman in place, and the current chairperson is not doing enough interviews to fill them up on time.
8Even with independent directors, the government has been utterly lax
Find out how all this sends the wrong signals out

Abu Dhabi's state-owned Adnoc and Indian private-sector congolmerate Reliance Industries have signed an agreement to build a new chlor-alkali (CA), ethylene dichloride (EDC) and polyvinyl chloride (PVC) facility in the Taziz chemicals zone in Ruwais.
8The two firms will build an integrated plant producing 940,000 t/yr of CA, 1.1mn t/yr of EDC and 360,000 t/yr of PVC. 8The plant will supply downstream buyers in the Middle East as well as in India, the companies said.

8Despite facing unprecedented market headwinds, Oman’s integrated global energy company, OQ, has pressed ahead with one of its boldest projects: the US$6.7 Bn Liwa Plastics Industrial Complex (LPIC), set to begin production later this year
8Find out more

8Indian Oil Board accords Stage-I approval for setting up the first-ever Styrene Project in India with a CAPEX of Rs 4495 crore
8This is a big foray indeed

8Manali Petrochemicals records a PAT of Rs 193 crore
8Consolidated revenues were at Rs 1000 crore

8Tata Chemicals now takes it business from Canada into the US
Find out more

The promoters of Crown LNG, setting up a massive 7.2 MMTPA LNG project at Kakinanda has got itself to work already
8It has hired a consultant

Paving the way for the transformation of the fossil fuel ecosystem in the country, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has issued a draft notification for facilitating use of a blend of 12 per cent and 15 per cent ethanol in gasoline as automotive fuels.

8A DOF circular on DAP supplies in the current Kharif and Rabi seasons has set alarm bells ringing in the industry
Find out why

8We are tracking a total of 6.23 million tonnes of crude imports
8Who is importing them and in what quantities?

8Today's evening data still shows that out of six LNG terminals ready, only two are ferrying cargoes

Fertilizer imports are active in the ensuing days, as our data seems to suggest.
8Imports are coming in in bulk of urea, MOP, sulphur, rock phosphate, ammonium nitrate, NPK as well as DAP
8Current DAP imports are by Kricbho, NFL and Coromandel, and they are coming in from China as well as Morocco

8This large CGD company is looking for compressed bio-gas in large quantities

8What is the latest update on the Swan LNG project
8Will it be completed on time?
8Unlikely, it seems