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

Crude cargoes coming in over the next few days
8RIL: 1.439 million tonnes (MMT)
8HMEL: 0.29 MMT
8IOCL + Nayara: 1.49 MMT
8BPCL: 0.66 MMT
8MRPL: 0.36 MMT
8CPCL: 0.26 MMT
8Vizag and Paradip: Offtake low on cyclone related issues.

8One Phos acid shipment is coming up on 12 Dec 2020.
8One Sulphuric acid shipment is coming up on 7 Dec 2020
8One Urea shipment is coming up on 6 Dec 2020.

Active LNG cargo receivers as of now are:
8GAIL
8PLL
8GSPC
8Shell
8IOCL 
8Archelor Mittal Nippon Steel India Ltd

RIL is bringing in its heavy duty ethane carriers to feed its refineries
8Find out when is the next cargo due
8Also a lot more on other imports RIL is doing as of the moment

8We also have for you the fertilizer import matrix for the coming days
1.76 million tonnes of assorted fertilizers are linked up for unloading ahead.

Here are the highlights:

8Petronas eyes maintenance at Group 111 Base Oils unit

8CNOOC Huizhou to shut Butyl-A unit

8Lotte Chemical to restart Daesan cracker

8Planned shutdown at Nan Ya’s Maleic Anyhydride unit

8Lotte Chemical resumes production at SM unit

On December 4, 2020, Petrochem sources confirmed that NPAC prices have slipped at Kandla port.

On December 4, 2020, domestic intact prices for cyclohexane increased.

Prices for MX have been revised at JNPT.

Prices for C10 solvent have been revised at Dahej.

On December 4, 2020, benzene prices gained at Vizag.

Acetic Acid prices have continuously increased from this week indicating a shortage of supply with a good demand.

Methanol prices have increased today indicating a shortage of supply with a growing demand in the domestic market.

A producer from South Korean is heard to have offered Bisphenol-A in India.

A major Saudi Arabian producer is heard to have offered its Vinyl Acetate Monomer.

A producer from South Korea is heard to have announced its offer for HDPE Film grade.

Trinseo, a global manufacturer of plastics, latex and rubber, have announced a price revision for polystyrene (PS) an acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS) in Europe, according to a press release issued by the company on December 2.

SM prices were stable in Asia on December 3, 2020.

On December 3, 2020, propylene prices climbed in Asia.

On December 3, 2020, PTA prices were assessed stable in Asia.

All India Plastics Manufacturers’ Association (AIPMA) in a letter urged the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, to help save the plastics processing industry which is in the verge of collapse. Exponential increase in cost of raw materials (Polymers) by private companies and PSU’s have come as a tremendous blow to the 50,000 odd plastics processing units, 90% of which are MSME’s.

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8Supreme Chemical got in a cargo of Styrene Monomer.