Hess Corp. and North Dakota officials gathered Monday to mark the recent completion of an expansion of the company's natural gas processing plant that will help cut the amount of gas production wasted through flaring and boost NGL ...
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Mistral Energy has started shipping purity ethane to Canada from the US on its Vantage Pipeline and expects to increase levels to 60,000 b/d over the next two years, a company spokesman said Thursday. The average volume in the "initial ...
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US March ethylene contract negotiations are still ongoing as US PVC producers are holding out for larger decreases, market sources said Tuesday. "A number of buyers have settled at a 4-cent/lb decrease, however there are at least two PVC ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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US ethylene contracts for January were heard fully settled up 2 cents from December, with the net transaction price at 50.25 cents/lb, market sources said Wednesday. The posted price also rose 2 cents from December to 54.75 cents/lb. ...
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US ethylene December contracts were heard to be settling 2 cents above November's level, increasing the net transaction to 48.25 cents/lb ($1,063/mt), sources said Monday. The posted price for December also would settle up 2 cents to ...
US ethylene margins climbed for the week as production issues over the weekend pushed spot markets higher Monday. Power outages were reported at Flint Hills Resources in Port Arthur, Texas, and at Chevron Phillips Chemicals' Sweeny ...
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Most US ethylene margins rose late last week despite higher feedstock costs as some production issues helped push up ethylene spot prices, Platts data showed late Friday. US spot ethylene moved up 2.25 cents/lb week on week, to be ...
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US steam cracker margins climbed week-on-week as ethylene prices reacted to the news of planned and unplanned outages in the US Gulf Coast region. ExxonMobil suffered an upset at its Baytown, Texas, olefins plant Tuesday. Westlake ...
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US steam cracker margins rose week on week as feedstocks prices declined, and while the continental US is enjoying a relatively warm winter. Mild weather forecasts for the upcoming months have lead to a drop in the price of propane, which ...
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US steam cracker margins climbed last week on higher spot prices and chemical plant outages. The US ethylene spot price jumped 6 cents on the week and was assessed Friday at 60-60.50 cents/lb FD USG, as olefins producer Williams ...
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US ethylene contracts for November have been seen settling 2 cents lower than October, cutting the net transaction price to 45.25 cents/lb, market sources said Tuesday. The decrease is the second in the last five months, bringing the ...
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The US Gulf Coast non-LST purity ethane assessment has fallen to its lowest level since August 2002, according to Platts data, a move attributed to increasing supplies form shale gas plays across the US. Ethane has fallen 68% on the ...
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US steam cracker margins showed minor increase against lower feedstock costs in a shortened holiday week,as US markets were closed for celebration of the Thanksgiving holiday. Platts'close of assessment for the week was at 12:30 p.m.CST ...
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