Americas petrochemical outlook, w/c April 15
Houston — US OLEFINS US propylene market participants head into this week looking to confirm a rollover for the April contract. The first settlements for April were heard on Friday...
Read moreHouston — US OLEFINS US propylene market participants head into this week looking to confirm a rollover for the April contract. The first settlements for April were heard on Friday...
Read moreHouston — Falling methanol prices in the US have narrowed the premium over the European market, closing the trans-Atlantic arbitrage on paper this week, S&P Global Platts data showed. The...
Read moreLondon — The startup of normal operations at Sibur's new 100,000 mt/year dioctyl terephthalate plant in Russia's Perm Krai region have begun and is already having an effect on availability...
Read moreSingapore — The fire at Malaysian Petronas' Refinery and Petrochemical Integrated Development, or PRefChem, at the Pengerang Integrated Complex in Johor early Friday is expected to delay the start of...
Read moreUS OLEFINS Propylene trade participants started this week expecting all three US PDH units to be operating normally. Meanwhile, ethylene prices established a near 10-month low last week below the...
Read moreHouston — The US March ethylene contract price was confirmed to have settled by a majority of the market at 26.75 cents/lb, a decline of 1.25 cents compared with the...
Read moreLondon — PRG's propylene pipeline in Germany's Ruhrgebiet has resumed operations after planned maintenance Friday, a spokesman for the company said. The maintenance started on March 11 and it was...
Read moreHouston — A fire and explosion rocked a chemical processing facility northeast of Houston on Tuesday, a little more than two weeks after another fire at a tank farm alongside...
Read moreUS OLEFINS Trade participants head into April awaiting a settlement for the March ethylene contract. Market sources have pointed to a likely decline for the March ethylene contract, citing a...
Read moreSingapore — The Asian petrochemicals market saw mixed sentiments across the product groups, namely olefins, aromatics, polymers and intermediates. In China, the value added tax reduction to 13%, from 16%...
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