8PESB chairman's slot still empty
8What is next on this front

81 million tonnes of chemicals are currently under import into India

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8We bring you prices prevailing as of today, for chemicals, collected by our team from across the country

Only three of the country's seven terminals have active LNG unloading taking place
8It is a sad commentary on the existing state of affairs
8Most have evacuation problems
8One, Shell Hazira, suffers from a faulty business model. Who would have thought that Shell, the global leader in gas, can get it all wrong?
8In India, the LNG story is going to be a long drawn out one, it will take time for capacity utilization levels in terminals to go up, and with quite a few more terminals coming up, it is going to be a long haul indeed.
8Meanwhile, Shell says it sees LNG demand doubling

Our daily fertilizer import data slate shows 4.6 MMTPA of products coming in
8IFFCO's Paradip complex is importing a significant quantity of rock phosphate and sulphur
8The material is coming in from Aqaba and Casablanca

8A small cargo of Vam is expected tomorrow

8There are many low-volume base oil imports taking place at Mumbai port
8Check out what the volumes are over the next few days

860000 tonnes of benzene is being imported
Find out the landing port and who is shipping it in

8A shipment of caustic soda has come in
8Brought in by Various

8Jupiter Dyechem just got a cargo of methanol
8Find out the tonnage and the port where it was delivered

852380 tonnes of assorted chemicals are arriving at Dahej in the coming days

8A shipment pf paraxylene has just landed
8It is being brought in by ONGC

Shell brings in:
8Base oil
8MCD
Find out what the quantity is

8GNFC imports a cargo of ethyl alcohol
8It is coming from Texas

8RIL has six shipments of paraxylene/benzene coming in
8Total cargo strength is 1.15 lakh tonnes

 As part of its transition from fossil-fuels to a multi-source, clean energy play, public sector oil & gas giant, Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOC), plans to set up two mega bio-refineries in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, a top IOC official has said.

Kochi refinery seems to have a vessel waiting period
8Is there a temporary stoppage? Note, that surmising refinery work stoppage from vessel waiting data is an inexact science, though if the number of vessels waiting goes up, and there is no unloading data at the port, then it could mean that storage tanks are full as of now. And this could be either because of a planned or unplanned work stoppage
8We are as-of-yesterday tracking 6.35 million tonnes of crude

8This is one Indian company that you cannot overlook anymore. It has military discipline, and it will break in, no matter the cost
8Find out who the bidders were for a recent PP tender for the Gujarat refinery

85th generation control release fertilizers have arrived

8ExxonMobil has completed the initial phase of a plant trial of a proprietary advanced recycling process for converting plastic waste into raw materials for the production of high-value polymers.
8We will have to see how the multinational deploys this technology.

8The Central government informed the parliament that the single-use plastic items to be phased out by 2022 have been identified on the basis of report of the Expert Committee constituted by the Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals on ‘Single Use Plastic’
8But clearly this goal is nowhere in sight now
Find out why

On February 26, 2021, Petrochem sources confirmed that phosphoric acid prices have slipped in the Delhi market. 

On February 26, 2021, DBP prices increased in the Mumbai market.