The price spread between Asian styrene monomer and petrochemical feedstock naphtha hit an eight-year high of $819.90/mt Wednesday on short covering amid low spot inventory in China, Platts data showed. SM prices jumped $10.50/mt day on ...
Tags: Chemicals, petrochemical, styrene monomer
The value of petrochemical products produced in Taiwan fell to NT$ 457.8 billion (US$ 15.28 billion) in January-March 2013, showing a decline of 8.1 percent year-on-year compared to production worth NT$ 498.31 billion achieved in same ...
Tags: Petrochemical Production, Textile
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 ...
Tags: ethylene margins, ethylene
Japan-based Keiyo Ethylene which had shut a naphtha cracker owing to mechanical issues, has restarted the cracker. A Keiyo official informed fibre2fashion that the cracker which was shut on April 30 due to mechanical issues has been ...
The Asia Pacific sweet crude market is expected to stay on a downward trajectory as it faces more competition from falling West African crude prices and an oversupply of regional spot cargoes, traders said this week. Perpetually weak ...
Tags: Sweet Crude Market, Sweet Crude
State-owned Qatar Petroleum (QP) signed a joint venture agreement Sunday with France's Total and Japan's Idemitsu, Cosmo Oil, Marubeni and Mitsui for a new condensate refinery to be built in Qatar at Ras Laffan Industrial City. Under the ...
Tags: Qatar Petroleum, Joint Venture
European benzene's premium to naphtha has topped the $450/mt mark for the first time since the start of February, as naphtha languishes at multi-month lows and benzene rises despite seemingly weak fundamentals. The benzene-naphtha spread ...
Tags: NWE, Benzene-Naphtha, Chemicals
Fixtures for shipments of more than 190,000 mt of heavy naphtha bound for Asia from the US Gulf Coast show that the arbitrage window has reopened to meet firm demand from Asia, trade and shipping sources said Friday. It marks the second ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, gasoline market
European naphtha prices have come under pressure from run cuts in the polyolefin chain as well as falling crude prices, with ICE Brent futures sinking to an eight-month low Friday, sources said. CIF NWE naphtha was assessed at $846.50/mt ...
Tags: polyethylene market, polyethylene
The Angolan Nemba crude premium to heavier grade Hungo crude has hit a near two year high as the naphtha-rich grade gains support from soaring Nigerian crude values, market sources said Friday. Platts assessed Nemba Thursday at Dated ...
China National Offshore Oil Corp or CNOOC Group, the parent of listed arm CNOOC Ltd, refined 30.08 million mt (602,400 b/d) of crude last year, up 15.2% from 26.1 million mt in 2011, the company said in its 2012 sustainable development ...
Tags: Refining Throughput, Chemicals, OIL
Aiming to expand presence in the petrochemical space, Indonesia’s biggest polyethylene producer, PT Titan Kimia Nusantara Tbk plans to construct a naphtha cracker complex near its industrial plant in Merak, Banten. Johanes Bambang ...
Demand for coaster butane in Northwest Europe has emerged as spot prices have fallen, according to industry sources Wednesday. In the winter period most surplus refinery butane is blended into gasoline to increase the vapor pressure. ...
To be able to withstand the challenge from low priced petrochemicals from the US in future, Asia’s biggest retailer, Sinopec Corp, earlier called China Petroleum and Chemical Corp, is gearing up to reduce its petrochemical production ...
The spot market for LPG cargoes loading out of the Middle East has softened amid weak demand from Asian buyers, according to market sources. This was reflected in the spot cargo price differentials, with Arcadia heard selling 44,000 mt of ...