South Korea's spot supply of solvent-grade mixed xylenes for April loading will fall by up to half of its typical volume because of lower yields from naphtha-fed steam crackers' use of butane in its feedstock mix, a market source said ...
Tags: solvent-grade mixed xylenes, butane, LPG
As the United States continues to lead the world in the production of natural gas, scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have devised a new and more efficient method with the potential to convert the ...
Researchers in France have developed a technique to directly grow graphene on aluminium nitride (AlN) crystalline templates on silicon substrates [A. Michon et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol104, p071912, 2014]. Up to now, attempts to use ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
US ethylene contract prices for February were heard to have fully settled 0.75 cent below January's contract prices, with the net transaction price at 49.50 cents/lb, sources said Monday. The posted price also slipped 0.75 cent compared ...
Spot LPG prices in South and East China were under pressure this week, amid expectations of import costs for March-arrival cargoes falling with Saudi Aramco setting Contract Prices lower, local traders said Friday. Imported LPG with a ...
Tags: Spot Prices, Import Costs, Chemicals
US propane and propylene stocks jumped 479,000 barrels to 27.15 million barrels for the reporting week ended February 28, Energy Information Administration data showed Wednesday. The build was far above market expectations, which were for ...
US ethylene contracts for February were heard settling 0.75 cent below January mark, lowering the net transaction to 49.5 cents/lb ($1,091/mt), sources said Tuesday. The posted price for February would also settle .75 cent lower at 54 ...
Tags: Ethylene, purity ethane
UPS Inc. said it is planning to purchase 1,000 propane-fueled delivery trucks and install 50 fueling stations at its facilities, representing a $70 million investment. The trucks will replace diesel- and gasoline-fueled vehicles in ...
Tags: Transportation, UPS, Trucks
The US Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is set to offer nearly $8m in grants under the Alternative Fuels Incentive Grant (AFIG) program for the purchase or conversion of alternative fuel vehicles. School districts, municipal ...
Japan's LPG stocks as of end-January dipped 1.23% month on month to 1.847 million mt from 1.870 million mt in December, the second straight monthly decline, as winter demand also prompted higher imports, data from the Japan LPGas ...
Tags: LPG Stocks, LPGas
LPG prices in South China surged Yuan 300-600/mt ($49-98/mt) this week as supply fell and demand increased, domestic traders said Friday. Imported LPG, with a propane and butane ratio of 80:20, was heard traded in the range of Yuan ...
Tags: LPG prices, propane
US propane and propylene stocks fell 1.2 million barrels to 26.71 million barrels for the reporting week ended February 14, Energy Information Administration data showed Thursday. Gulf Coast stocks saw a draw of 533,000 barrels to fall to ...
China's recent move to digitally tag fuel cargoes to clamp down on the widespread practice of declaring crude purchases as fuel oil to evade taxes is already seen to be curbing demand for heavy Venezuelan Merey crude from teapot refiners in ...
Tags: Curbing Demand, Tax Change
Gulf Coast propane prices continued to hold a premium over Midcontinent product Wednesday as the market stabilizes into its traditional price relationship. Propane at Mont Belvieu, Texas, was assessed at $1.555/gal on Wednesday while ...
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Spot prices for delivered cargoes of North Sea propane have increased on renewed buying from the petrochemicals sector, according to industry sources. In the early part of this month the spot price of CIF North Sea propane was just above ...
Tags: Propane, Petrochemicals