8The government announced the Scheme Guidelines and rates for the Remission of Duties and Taxes on Exported Products (RoDTEP) on 17th August 2021
8HS Codes under Chapters 24 to 31 were excluded from the list. The government later explained that sectors that are performing reasonably well have been excluded from the RoDTEP scheme
8The Merchandise Exports from India Scheme (MEIS) had to be discontinued following objections raised by USA that the scheme was incompatible and violative of international trade norms of WTO
8The government decided to discontinue MEIS and announced the WTO-compliant RoDTEP scheme to replace it
8But there is all round disappointment over the new scheme

8The caustic-chlorine industry in India witnessed a cyclical downturn after H1FY20, which was further exacerbated during FY21 owing to the COVID-19 pandemic-related contraction in demand from major end-use industries
8But the outlook has brightened

8ExxonMobil and Rosneft have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to cooperate on the assessment of lower-carbon technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from their operations
8The companies will consider the prospects of new projects initially focused on carbon capture and storage (CCS) and the development of lower-carbon fuels, such as hydrogen and ammonia
8The MOU continues the cooperation between the two companies and signals their intent to jointly develop and implement lower-carbon projects, as well as exchange their respective experience and technological solutions in promising areas

8The change in climatic conditions is going to impact agricultural productivity in a huge way. It will manifest in terms of rise in temperature, humidity, and precipitation, says Dr. Ashok Dalwai, Chief Executive Officer, National Rainfed Authority of India, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare

8Manali Petrochemical Ltd (MPL) and Econic Technologies have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for introducing a more environment friendly, CO2 containing polyols, into the $28 bn global polyols market

Crystal Quinone Private Limited: manufactures a range of vinyl sulphones, dyes and pigment intermediates, and antioxidants
8The company has three manufacturing facilities at GIDC Vatva, Ahmedabad. It has a total installed production capacity of 900 MT of organic chemicals and 1,500 MT of inorganic chemicals
8The company seems to be doing well

8Hy-Gro Chemicals Pharmtek Pvt. Ltd for APIs, advanced intermediates and fine chemicals
8Its product profile and customer base are growing

Time Technoplast Ltd is a manufacturer of polymer products in India, as well as in the Asia and the MENA regions
8It has operations in 21 locations across India and 10 locations overseas
8It has overseas footprints in the UAE, Bahrain, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Taiwan, Vietnam and the US
8It seems to galloping ahead
Get a full update here

8Get a full history of Sumitomo Chemicals, one of the largest chemical companies in the world
8Find out how it looks at the future

India imports a wide variety of chemicals
8And as of today evening we are tracking 7.62 lakh MT of chemical imports
8Know more about all the chemical imports coming in the next few days

8The website is tracking 7.6 million tonnes of crude imports into India as of the moment at different arrival ports
8Where is this crude coming from?
8Who is importing them and in what quantities?

8Our latest as of today evening data shows that four LNG cargoes are now lined up at Dabhol
8As far as cargo intensity goes as per available port data, Dabhol is already the second busiest terminal after Dahej

8A comprehensive update on crew change and port status is carried here
8Get the latest update here

8Get an update of all of dry and bulk vessels arriving into India
8A comprehensive port wise data is carried here

8Here is a daily update on tankers that are bringing in assorted chemicals into India
8Data is available on nearly a 100 shipments

Around 92k tonnes of ammonia shipments are heading towards India
8IFFCO to receive one cargo on October 8
8One cargoe of liquid ammonia up ahead for Coromandel International
8MCF to receive a 3500 MT cargo from Mesaieed

87.37 lakh MT of LPG up ahead for delivery at assorted Indian ports
8Get the latest LPG shipments into the country spread over the next few days

8We track regular fertilizer imports
8Get our comprehensive data sheet on fertilizer imports coming up ahead

We had said earlier that there are three ways of doing the EPC downstream business:
8The Megha way
8The Tata Projects way
8And, the L&T, Technip, Toyo way
As of yesterday, Megha has graduated from doing it its own unique way to doing it the Tata Projects way

8ThyssenKrupp won a major downstream LSTK project yesterday
8But did it stoop too low to conquer?

Bids were submitted yesterday for a DHDT project
8Find out which companies did

8It looks like the Adani coal-to-PVC project suffered a slight setback
Find out more

Chinese oil supergiants are preparing for a green transition.
8Are there are lessons here for their Indian counterparts?

8JKM is at a record high of $34.47/MMBtu
8This has repercussions down the line
8Also, how long will gas prices remain elevated?

Domestic natural gas prices have increased to US$2.90 / mmbtu from US$1.79 / mmbtu for the period October 2021 to March 2022.
8There is the worry that CGD companies may take a hit
8But is it justified?
8Also, get the domestic price increase information here, both onland and deepwater
8As well as sector-wise gas consumption data
8Is fuel switching causing LPG prices to shoot higher?