The ICIS Weekly Atlantic Basin Feedstocks report covers Europe and the US. There are numerous price assessments, including crude, naphtha, gasoline, ethane, propane, butane, LPG, NGL, VGO, fuel oil and cracked fuel and these are gathered by our locally based reporters. Commentary gives news and analysis on price movements, refinery news, demand patterns and any other economic or political news impacting the market at the time. This reliable tool can be used to help you make business decisions.
Updated to Q4 2020
US
After NGLs production defied bearish expectations and held mostly steady in Q3, increased drilling activity, spurred by higher crude oil prices, boosted NGL production in Q4. Supply of propane and butane has proven disproportionately tightened (compared to that of ethane) and coronavirus-related demand destruction due the effect of these headwinds on US refinery utilisation.
Strong consumption of downstream products has sustained demand for US ethane throughout the pandemic, largely on the back of surging consumption, both domestically and abroad, of non-durable PE applications. While the supply chain was disrupted in Q3 by an unusually active Atlantic hurricane season, Q4 was characterised by higher cracker and polymer plant rates, which drove up demand for feedstock ethane.
We offer the following regional Feedstocks analysis and news coverage to keep you informed of factors and developments affecting prices in the Feedstocks marketplace.
Price reporting
Related products
Price history
News & analysis
ICIS price assessments are based on information gathered from a wide cross-section of the market, comprising consumers, producers, traders and distributors from more than 250 reporters world-wide. Confirmed deals, verified by both buyer and seller, provide the foundation of our price assessments.
Our in-depth market knowledge drives our specialist focus, as we recognise the importance of individual market dynamics and not a one-size-fits-all approach.
Over 25 years of reporting on key chemicals markets, including Feedstocks, has brought global recognition of our methodology as being unbiased, authoritative and rigorous in preserving our editorial integrity. Our global network of reporters in Houston, London, Singapore, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Mumbai, Perth and Moscow ensures unrivalled coverage of established and emerging markets.
Published weekly on Fridays covering the physical, forward and futures markets.
LONDON (ICIS)--The Ukrainian gas incumbent Naftogaz aims to expand its activities in the fertilizer and renewables sectors in addition to ramping up gas explorations in the Black Sea later this year,...
ReadLONDON (ICIS)--Equinor and SSE announced plans to develop two low-carbon power plants, one equipped with carbon capture and storage (CCS) and the other powered entirely by hydrogen, adding a total...
ReadLONDON (ICIS)--Bulgaria is planning to develop a hydrogen roadmap targeting 1.1GW of green hydrogen production capacity by 2030, according to a report presented by Angel Popov, deputy transport...
ReadOutlook • 40GW of wind capacity by 2030 and funding for nuclear power • 5GW of low-carbon hydrogen capacity by 2030 • Carbon capture and storage funding lifted to £1 billion LONDON (ICIS)--UK...
Read