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.
The Worley Insights Olefins Derivatives Monitor delivers a streamlined, month‑by‑month readout of developments across the olefins and derivatives value chain. By tracking shifts in feedstock costs, product pricing, margins, trade route economics, and operational activity, each issue surfaces the fundamentals driving competitiveness across ethylene, propylene, polyethylene, polypropylene, and MEG.