8Gautam Adani is said to be in talks with two private equity firms for a potential partnership to enter the race to buy state-run oil refiner and marketing company Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL)

8SK Capital's packaging solutions supplier IPACKCHEM Group has signed a definitive agreement to partner with India's Mullackal Polymers Private Limited, a crop protection packaging provider in India, via an acquisition of the business

8Profits have gone up last quarter for the company
8Clearly, it is coming out of the stress imposed by COVID

8Plastic Energy mops up  €145 million for its recycling business
8Find out what makes the company attractive for investors

8A bulk bitumen order is up for grabs for those who are interested

8We are carrying here a weekly acrylic acid market report
8Find out our analysis for the coming week

8The website carries here our weekly outlook for pine oil
8Find out how prices are going to behave ahead

8Find out our weekly analysis, price charts and projections on octanol price movements for the coming week

8We are carrying here a weekly mixed-xylene market report
8Find out what kind of prices are projected going ahead

8The website carries here a weekly outlook on BAM prices
8Find out what our analysts are saying about how prices will behave till next week

8Currently we are providing data on recycled PP, HDPE, LDPE, LLDPE, ABS and PVC prices
8Soon we will expand the list to as many as 150 products, covering all important recycled products in India
8Prices are given for Mumbai, Delhi and Ahmedabad

8In rubber we have begun giving prices for NBR, butyl rubber, BIIR, CIIR, EPDM, isoprene rubber, chloroprene rubber, fluorine rubber, SBR, PBR, SBS, SEBS, precipitated silica, silane coupling agent, fumed silica, standard rubber, RSS ribbed smoked sheet rubber, compound rubber, carbon black, rubber accelerator, and antioxidant
8The coverage involve about 50 grades
8Markets covered are Delhi, Mumbai and Ahmedabad

8We are providing around 30 different grades of plastic films, segregated into BOPET, BOPA, CPP, BOPP and PE
8The daily price coverage is for major cities in the country

8We are expanding our fibre coverage to around at least 80 different grades going ahead
8Prices are given for DTY, FDY, POY, Polyester chips, PET, polyester industrial yarn, PA-6, nylon yarn (POY, DTY, FDY), nylon tyre cord, spandex, pure polyester yarn, spun rayon, reactive dyes, disperse dyes, viscose filament, polypropylene

8We are doubling our chemical coverage
8The following chemicals are included: Liquid chlorine, Liquid alkali, Heavy soda ash, light soda ash, Diluted nitric acid, Hydrogen peroxide, Acid Ester, different kinds of Chloride, different forms of Polyurethane, low molecular weight polymer, feedstock for coatings as well as ethylene oxide and downstream, as well additional plasticizers, alcohols, methanol and downstream, aromatics, ethylene oxide and downstream

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Of the country's 7 LNG terminals (if the Jaigarh terminal of H-Energy is also taken as a completed terminal but not working because of lack of demand), only three are active as per our analysts
8Of this, one, the Shell terminal at Hazira, has just one cargo coming in on the 15th
8Spot cargoes are at a complete halt, and only long term cargoes are in
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Mallika Srinivasan, the chairperson of the PESB has last week changed the hiring paradigm for the oil & gas industry
8Much to the chagrin of some, but to the cheers of others

IOC had got into an MOU with Praj Industries to promote bio-fuels in India
8The MOU however has been criticized by company insiders, claiming that it may hamstring the oil giant in more ways than one
8What is more, the IOC chairman can do much more in terms of pushing new technology than it is doing just now

8CPCL is finally got cracking on the Nagapattinam refinery
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8The Build Own Operate (BOO) model is now sought to be extended by IOC to assets other than gas production
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EIL is embarking on its biggest ever gamble ever
8And even failure will have its lessons

8CGD companies are slowly coming up to scale when it comes to the volume of investment made
8Here is a company that now has a capex of Rs 1500 crore a year

India phosphate shipments are forecast to drop a dramatic 20% in 2021 due largely to limited supplies (as farmer demand has been relatively robust). DAP imports are down 42% y-o-y (through September) as India’s MRP and subsidy levels have made it the lowest netback market and have kept importer economics and domestic production in the red (production is down 18% y-o-y).
8This has led to a significant decline in stocks (down 69% y-o-y) and notable pent-up demand that should result in higher 2022 shipments, though but whether that happens or not remains a moot point
8The extent of the forecast increase in ‘22 shipments will be heavily dependent on further adjustments to subsidy levels, as recent ones have thus far not been sufficient, while global prices are expected to remain at current elevated levels through at least H1 2022
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Mosaic India has the support of its parent company, and therefore on a strong wicket
8The company's operating profitability is expected to remain modest however due to the trading nature of operations. Nevertheless, the liquidity position of the company remains healthy, given the high financial flexibility due to the demonstrated support from the parent in the form of extended credit periods at market linked interest rates, significant un-encumbered cash balances and large unutilised bank limits backed by corporate guarantee/letter of comfort from the parent