Thinking global, living local

How to use coal-to-urea-design-opensource: size a coal-to-urea complex

October 23, 2026

Size a coal-gasification-to-urea complex in which six units share one mass basis, and compare the result with the real Talcher plant. ...

Read the piece →

Refiners Won the Exemption Fight, Biofuels Kept the Volumes: What Eight Court Rulings Did to America's Biofuel Credits

October 03, 2026

Eight US court rulings from 2023 to 2026 show refiners winning the small-refinery-exemption fight while biofuel producers keep record-hi...

Read the piece →

India Exports the Naphtha and Benzene Its Own Pharma Industry Needs — Mostly to China

September 17, 2026

India's naphtha exports to China doubled to $2.4bn in FY2025-26, the same fiscal year ethanol blending freed up the refinery capacit...

Read the piece →

Ethanol Freed Up Refinery Capacity for Petrochemicals. The Pharma Chain Hasn't Seen Much of It Yet.

September 16, 2026

E20 blending now removes a structural fifth of the petrol pool from every litre refiners sell, and they are redirecting the freed capaci...

Read the piece →
Umashankar Triplicane Dwarakanathan
Contact Us
Umashankar Triplicane Dwarakanathan
Investment Promotion & Energy-Sector Leader · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
LinkedIn → GitHub → Email +91 78273 81696
How this site works

Data-led analysis of India's trade, currency and industrial policy. Every article is built from primary official sources, and every figure links back to the release, table or filing it came from.

Sources. DGCI&S TradeStat (imports/exports, HSN-wise) · PIB (government press releases, January 2017 to today, refreshed daily) · RBI (circulars, balance of payments) · MoSPI (CPI/WPI, IIP) · PARIVESH (environmental clearances) · CCIL (bond yields) · BIS (policy rates) · SEBI, NSE/BSE and SEC filings for company data.

Interpretation. Figures carry their vintage and retrieval date; estimates and press-reported numbers are labelled as such; where sources disagree, both are shown. Corrections are made visibly, never silently. Articles are written with AI assistance from the cited sources — AI-generated text can misstate figures even when working from real material, so verify any number that matters to a decision against the linked primary source.

footer

Browse all articles by topic

Every piece on this blog, grouped. Or read the full index.

Agriculture & FertilisersAI ToolsChemicalsClimate & CarbonEnergy & FuelsGas & LNGImport SubstitutionIndustrial PolicyMarkets & FinanceMobility & EVPrices & InflationTextilesTrade & Tariffs

Each topic is a live archive page that updates itself as pieces are labelled. It replaces a hand-kept list that had fallen 18 articles behind.