Platts Global Petrochemicals Analytics Service

Global commodity trading markets are finding their way through unforeseen market events and keeping up-to-date on rapid changes across the value chain is increasingly challenging.

Whether you're interested in gaining clarity into short-term market changes or need analysis to educate your longer- term strategic decisions, access to comprehensive and integrated fundamental data is critical to making trading and investment decisions
with confidence.

Platts Global Petrochemical Analytics Service includes a range of reports that help identify future market movements, so you can understand where opportunities and risks lie and better manage your resources and profitability.

We believe it’s important to have comprehensive historical data, which is analyzed by our team of global experts, in order to provide the forecasts in which the data tells the story.

With changing market conditions, its essential to stay informed

See an integrated value-chain, monthly and quarterly price forecast for energy, feedstocks, olefins, polyolefins and aromatics
Gain insights into global polyolefin and aromatics markets, including the full petrochemical supply chain

Access comprehensive supply-and-demand data, which influences feedstock and petrochemical price movements and their future shifts
Understand key factors and market events with detailed data sets that integrate into your data
Develop actionable insights into how changing trade flows and emerging chemicals markets will evolve

Key Features of Platts Global Petrochemicals Analytics Service

Methodology

Transparent, bottom-up analysis produces an objective view of market trends by removing subjectivity and confirmation bias

Data

Hundreds of thousands of raw data points are aggregated and modeled to create insights and isolate trends

Expertise

Access to the S&P Global Platts team of analysts

Service Deliverables

Short term and long term reports include a PDF summary of the forecasts and Excel file containing all supply, demand and trade data

Empowering Business with Platts Global Petrochemicals Analytics Service

Our insights help you make decisions in the short and long term.

Traders

Make informed trading decisions with access to historical and seasonal trade flows in various regions. Anticipate future trends by analyzing the impact of plant outages.

Procurement and Marketers

Formulate successful strategies by leveraging our production, demand and price forecasts, which help anticipate potential peaks and troughs in purchasing cycles. Our trade-flow data helps you identify new sourcing and distributing opportunities in global markets.

Analysts

Create your own models leveraging our view of the market. Our tools and independent, reliable data help inform your projections.

Strategic Planners

Define growth strategies and evaluate market opportunities such as joint ventures, long-term trade agreements and plant investments using our analytics. Our long-term outlooks provide you with the foundation for successful strategic planning decisions.

A closer look at Platts Global Petrochemicals Analytics Service

Gain a holistic view of current market conditions with tools that tie our olefins, polymers and aromatics insights together.

Weekly Global Heat Maps

Focused on short term price directions. Available for ethylene and derivatives, propylene and derivatives and aromatics value-chain

Bi-Monthly Regional Petrochemical Scorecard

Focused on spreads and margins see outlooks and trends highlights that supplements our fundamental analysis and global model output

Weekly Global Petrochemical Dashboard

Includes over 100 seasonal graphs which supplements our fundamental analysis and global model output

What's covered?

Supply and demand balance by country
GDP forecasts by country
Trade data
Plant outages
Operating rates
Cost of production
Margin and price forecasts

Access informative features

Supply and demand balance by country

A snapshot of what market participants are pricing into the petrochemicals markets, enabling you to focus on current trends, short term quantitative analysis and price direction, in addition to the longer term fundamental outlook.

Gain excel files of all supply, demand and trade data

All short-term and long-term outlooks are available online via Platts Dimensions and Platts Platform

Global Olefins and Polymers Outlook

All short-term and long-term outlooks are available online via Platts Dimensions and Platts Platform.

Analytical Reports for Olefins

A quarterly long-term 10-year analysis examining key insights in polyolefins markets with monthly short-term updates. This report tracks crucial data and developments that influence prices.

Ethylene Forecast

Ethylene feedstock price forecasts
Global ethylene and derivatives price forecasts
Supply and demand fundamentals forecasts
Cost curves in Asia, Europe and the US
Production summary for Asia, Europe and the US
Outages detailing dates and impacts

Propylene Forecast

Global propylene and derivatives price forecasts
Supply and demand fundamentals forecasts
Forecast of propylene demand by derivative
Global propylene cash-cost analysis by region

Polyethylene Forecast

Regional price forecasts for HDPE, LDPE, LLDPE and US Domestic PE
Polyethylene per capita demand forecasts
Deep analysis on emerging market trends
Regional supply and demand overviews for North America, Europe, Middle East and Asia Pacific

Polypropylene Forecast

Global polypropylene price forecasts
Polypropylene per capita demand forecast analysis
Regional supply and demand overviews for North America, Europe, Middle East, Asia Pacific and China

Platts Asia Aromatics Outlook

Analytical Reports for Aromatics

A monthly analysis examining detailed forecasts up to two years through the end of the next calendar year for key aromatics markets in China, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan and India. This report and data sheet tracks critical market events and trends, including changes in monthly prices, supply, demand and trade flows. Our supply-and-demand history dates back to 2015.

Aromatics Analyzed

Naphtha
Benzene
Paraxylene
Toluene
Mixed Xylenes
Styrene
PTA, PET, Polyester

Key Market Indicator Updates

Asian aromatics crack spread vs. Dubai Crude
Asian aromatics margins
Asian aromatics Naphtha spreads
Asian on-purpose aromatics margins
Singapore Gasoline Blend values
Downstream aromatics spreads
Commercial stocks
Key downstream demand indicators for the Chinese PET and Polyester industry

Platts Asia Naphtha Outlook

This monthly report and accompanying data file deliver detailed supply and demand outlooks regarding naphtha in major Asian markets; Japan, Korea, Taiwan, China and India. The report also includes insights on trade flows between Northwest Europe and Asia and a discussion on current reforming and aromatics margins. With the data file you will have access to key naphtha, refined product and petrochemicals prices.