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.
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.