Platts Petrochemicals Service

A renewed focus to solve your business challenges

Platts Petrochemicals Service

Today’s petrochemicals market participants demand a more comprehensive view of what is driving prices in the chemical markets. To meet these requirements, we have developed a new approach that delivers our full range of petrochemicals content and analytical tools, into three simplified, enterprise-wide offerings:

Platts Market Data – Petrochemicals: includes benchmarks and prices assessments
Platts Market Insight – Petrochemicals:
includes news, analysis, forecasts, fundamental data, analytical tools
Platts Risk Market Data – Petrochemicals:
our forward curves, eWindow derivative data,
swaps data and M2MS curves

Meanwhile, we are working hard to improve your day-to-day experience of working with us, with a renewed focus on closer collaboration. Armed with this deeper understanding of your business challenges and strategies, your S&P Global Platts representative can guide you towards the relevant additional data sets and tools now available to you, helping drive your business performance to new levels.

Platts Market Data - Petrochemicals

Our petrochemicals price assessments have provided a basis for trade across commodities, and the world, for decades. But, in this increasingly integrated and globalized trading environment, understanding the correlation between regions and sectors in order to compete effectively has never been more important.

This is why we have developed the new Platts Market Data - Petrochemicals package which provides access to the full breadth and depth of Platts petrochemicals market data, including benchmarks and contract price assessments, plus:

A more connected view of the influences on the price of petrochemicals through access to the industry’s only integrated data sets across commodities, regions and verticals
Diverse new data sets to stimulate fresh thinking and inform new strategies
Historical data to enable you to look at past market trends to inform your future plans and back testing needs
Excel Add-Ins or API feeds to enable you to act faster
Enterprise-wide access to our petrochemicals market data, making it available to both those who find it essential and those who would find it useful
A robust and transparent methodology that brings consistency to our petrochemicals price assessments

Platts Market Data – Petrochemicals key benchmarks

Platts Market Insight - Petrochemicals

The better you get to know our wider capabilities, the more you will appreciate our unique ability to reveal the crucial story behind the numbers. We’ve long been synonymous with timely and insightful petrochemicals market news and reports, delivered by market specialists around the globe. Increasingly though, your peers are discovering the benefits of combining our full breadth of capabilities across geographies, commodities and the supply chain.

Whether you are selling, buying or trading in the petrochemicals markets, Platts Market Insight – Petrochemicals provides you with the critical information you need to act confidently:

Deep analysis covering key aspects of the market including supply, demand, inventories, infrastructure, trade flows and policy
A greater depth of trade flow data along with robust and intuitive interactive analytics tools to interrogate it
Real-time information service that is fully integrated with market commentary from across multiple commodities and across the supply chain.
Global weekly spot and contract benchmark prices for key olefins including ethylene, propylene, and butadiene, including the Petrochemical Cracker Margin Index giving you an independent analysis on cracker profitability

Detailed, data-driven market reports providing you with market intelligence
Scenario planning reports to help define and forecast long-term outlooks and develop alternate scenarios for energy prices
Regional and global forecasts for key markets
Essential fundamental data and innovative new data sets that are being added all the time
Access to our analysts and market specialists to gain an even deeper understanding

By working more closely with you, we are helping you access and make use of the unrivalled breadth and depth of connected insight we provide, to solve business challenges, both anticipated and unforeseen. What’s more, enterprise-wide access to the most comprehensive insights package available on the market means you can drive business performance like never before.

Platts Risk Market Data - Petrochemicals

In a market environment that generates plenty of uncertainties, Platts Risk Market Data offers an independent, verifiable source of data to help you validate valuations and better align risk tolerance with business strategy.

Our Forward Curves offer an independent, verifiable source of data to

help you validate valuations and better align risk tolerance with business strategy.

Platts Forward Curves (PFC) are produced by the industry’s largest editor are produced by the industry’s largest editorial team, who specialize in observing and reporting on the spot and derivatives markets. With assessments and market commentary based on actual market activity and transactions, you are well equipped to support your trading strategies and capitalize on emerging opportunities.

When it comes to working with your team on business-critical risk decisions, we understand you can't be constrained by user licenses, which is why we provide enterprise-wide access to our range of petrochemicals forward curves:

Almost 40 assessments of forward curves – plus spreads and differentials – for benzene, naphtha, brent, propane, paraxylene, styrene and toluene across Asia, EMEA and Americas markets.

eWindow derivative data for naphtha
Swaps data for naphtha and propane

Some of your peers choose to use our forward curves to validate internally-derived curves, calculate mark-to-market valuations to

determine profit and loss, or to calculate key metrics such as Value-at-Risk. Others use them to report the fair value of financial instruments, manage counterparty credit exposure and collateral requirements, or to assess the market value of assets and liabilities.