ODM: Mixed Feedstock Dynamics, Rising Ethane Costs
Description
The Olefins Derivatives Monitor (ODM) 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.
This issue examines how diverging crude and gas markets reshaped feedstock competitiveness and early year margin performance across olefins and derivatives.
Crude softened while US gas firmed, lifting ethane costs; naphtha and coal declined. Olefins were mixed with improving margins, while PG propylene and PP weakened. PE and MEG margins mostly fell, with route specific exceptions.
This issue examines how diverging crude and gas markets reshaped feedstock competitiveness and early year margin performance across olefins and derivatives.
Crude softened while US gas firmed, lifting ethane costs; naphtha and coal declined. Olefins were mixed with improving margins, while PG propylene and PP weakened. PE and MEG margins mostly fell, with route specific exceptions.
Table of Contents
73 Pages
- 1. Highlights
- 2. Monthly Data Snapshots
- 3. Feedstock Prices
- 3.1 Crude Oil
- 3.2 Natural Gas
- 3.3 Coal
- 3.4 Naphtha
- 3.5 NGL
- 4. Ethylene
- 4.1 Price Movement
- 4.2 Production Cost and Margin
- 5. Propylene
- 5.1 Price Movement
- 5.2 Production Cost and Margin
- 6. Polyethylene
- 6.1 Price Movement
- 6.2 Cost of Supply and Margin – Exports to Asia
- 6.3 Cost of Supply and Margin – Exports to NWE
- 6.4 Cost of Supply and Margin – Exports to Latin America
- 7. Mono Ethylene Glycol
- 7.1 Price Movement
- 7.2 EU Anti-Dumping Duties (ADD)
- 7.3 Cost of Supply and Margin – Exports to Asia
- 7.4 Cost of Supply and Margin – Exports to NWE
- 7.5 Cost of Supply and Margin – Exports to Latin America
- 8. Polypropylene
- 8.1 Price Movement
- 8.2 Cost of Supply and Margin – Exports to Asia
- 8.3 Cost of Supply and Margin – Exports to NWE
- 8.4 Cost of Supply and Margin – Exports to Latin America
- 9. Marginal Ethylene Value and Cash Flow Returns in Derivatives
- 9.1 Saudi Ethane
- 9.2 USGC Ethane
- 10. Appendices
- 10.1 Appendix 1: Feedstock Costs and Product Prices (US$ Per Metric Ton)
- 10.2 Appendix 2: Ethylene Production Costs (US$ Per Metric Ton)
- 10.3 Appendix 3: Propylene Production Costs (US$ Per Metric Ton)
- 10.4 Appendix 4: Polyethylene Production Costs (US$ Per Metric Ton)
- 10.5 Appendix 5: MEG Production Costs (US$ Per Metric Ton)
- 10.6 Appendix 6: Polypropylene Production Costs (US$ Per Metric Ton)
- 10.7 Appendix 7: Definition of Leader Petrochemical Complexes in the Olefins &
- Derivatives Monitor Report
- 11. Worley Consulting Overview
- 12. Ethylene Cracker Energy and CO2 Emissions Management Services
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