Entries from Chemicals & The Economy tagged with 'Feedstocks for Profit'
Middle East, Chinese, petchem capacity starts to arrive
The blog spent a fruitful afternoon last week, going through ICIS news reports of cracker start-ups in the Middle East and China. The chart above is the fruit of its labours, which shows that 4.8MT of ethylene capacity started up...
Butadiene supply tightens as cracker feeds lighten
One of the key conclusions in our 2008 Study, 'Feedstocks for Profit', was that butadiene had the potential to go very tight in a Global Downturn Scenario. And as the chart above shows, prices are now rising sharply in the...
Hope for recovery, plan for downturn
Surprisingly, our 7th European conference this week in Cologne (co-organised with ICIS), was one of our most successful. Delegate numbers were down, as companies cut travel budgets. But those attending said they had gained much more, than if they had...
BASF reduce 2008 global GDP forecast
BASF have now reduced their 2008 GDP forecast from 2.8% to 2.4%. This may sound a small amount, but it means it is now in line with the Global Downturn Scenario set out in our Feedstocks for Profit Study. Previously,...
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