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This issue examines how higher naphtha costs and weak downstream demand pressured olefins and derivatives markets. Ethylene and propylene trends were mixed, while PE, PP and MEG prices and margins generally weakened across key regions.
Is the petrochemical industry’s oversupply problem really a demand forecasting problem? This Insight examines how GDP assumptions, AI-driven productivity gains, and consumer spending could accelerate polyethylene and olefins demand growth and shorten the current oversupply cycle.
This issue examines how geopolitical disruptions are reshaping energy, petrochemical, and industrial markets through shifting trade flows, supply chain stress, changing feedstock economics, evolving energy security priorities, and transition-driven demand growth.
Polyethylene’s outlook is shaped by shifts in sustainability mandates, recycling innovations, and evolving feedstock economics that continue to redefine global trade flows and competitive dynamics.
This issue examines how weak demand and ample supply pressured olefins and polymers prices despite firmer crude markets. Ethylene, propylene, PE, PP and MEG prices weakened, while margins remained mixed across regions and routes.
This issue examines how ongoing geopolitical conflicts and volatile supply chains are impacting global energy, resources, and chemical markets, highlighting sectoral resilience, major price shifts, demand drivers, and evolving trade and investment patterns.
Often overlooked as a byproduct, sulfur is a strategic commodity linking refining, fertilizers, mining, and battery materials. Explores 2026 market volatility, North America’s role in global supply, and implications for food security, trade flows, and supply‑chain resilience.
This issue examines how falling crude, gas, coal and naphtha costs interacted with outages and weak demand to produce mixed margin outcomes across the value chain. Olefins margins diverged, while PE, PP and MEG margins mostly softened across regions.
This issue examines how supply shocks are disrupting energy and petrochemical markets, driving price volatility, shifting trade flows, and stressing supply chains, with implications for refining, chemicals, energy security, and industrial market dynamics.
This issue examines how supply tightness and Middle East disruptions sustained higher crude, naphtha, and olefins prices, lifting margins across ethylene, propylene, PE, MEG, and PP, with some variability across regions and production routes.