diff --git a/ci/requirements-3.6.pip b/ci/requirements-3.6.pip
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..688866a18542f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ci/requirements-3.6.pip
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+xlwt
diff --git a/ci/requirements-3.6.run b/ci/requirements-3.6.run
index 684dab333648a..daf07be2d1785 100644
--- a/ci/requirements-3.6.run
+++ b/ci/requirements-3.6.run
@@ -2,3 +2,19 @@ python-dateutil
 pytz
 numpy
 scipy
+openpyxl
+xlsxwriter
+xlrd
+# xlwt (installed via pip)
+numexpr
+pytables
+# matplotlib (not avail on defaults ATM)
+lxml
+html5lib
+jinja2
+sqlalchemy
+pymysql
+# psycopg2 (not avail on defaults ATM)
+beautifulsoup4
+s3fs
+xarray
diff --git a/ci/requirements-3.6.sh b/ci/requirements-3.6.sh
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index 0000000000000..7d88ede751ec8
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+++ b/ci/requirements-3.6.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+source activate pandas
+
+echo "install 36"
+
+conda install -n pandas -c conda-forge feather-format