Brainfood

Brainfood for the Plastics Industry, March 13

Download Issue 24.06 Market Update Plastics Feedstocks (Oil, Naphtha, Propane) WTI crude oil prices are unchanged around $79/barrel. Over this two week period WTI has been very steady, not fluctuating by more than $2/barrel in either direction. Naphtha prices (CIF Japan) are up a little

Brainfood for the Plastics Industry, February 28

Download Issue 24.05 Market Update Plastics Feedstocks (Oil, Naphtha, Propane) Since our last report two weeks ago, oil and naphtha prices are about the same and propane prices are down about 7%. WTI crude oil prices are unchanged around $79/barrel. WTI Crude oil is up

Brainfood for the Plastics Industry, February 14

Download Issue 24.04 Market Update Plastics Feedstocks (Oil, Naphtha, Propane) Since our last report two weeks ago, oil, naphtha and propane prices are all pretty much flat. WTI crude oil prices are around $78/barrel versus $77/barrel two weeks ago. Naphtha prices (CIF Japan) are the

Brainfood for the Plastics Industry, January 31

Download Issue 24.03 Market Update Plastics Feedstocks (Oil, Naphtha, Propane) Since our last report two weeks ago, oil, naphtha and propane pricing are all higher. WTI crude oil prices are up about 5% to $76.61/barrel compared to two weeks ago. This is on top of

Brainfood for the Plastics Industry, January 17

Download Issue 24.02 Market Update Plastics Feedstocks (Oil, Naphtha, Propane) Since our last report two weeks ago, oil and naphtha are up small but propane pricing is up big on account of the arctic freeze sweeping across much of the USA. WTI crude oil prices

Brainfood for the Plastics Industry, January 3

Download Issue 24.01 Market Update Plastics Feedstocks (Oil, Naphtha, Propane) Since our last report in early December, oil prices , naphtha prices and propane prices are all about the same. WTI crude oil prices attempted to rally somewhat in December but were unable and they

Brainfood for the Plastics Industry, December 6

Download Issue 23.22 Market Update Plastics Feedstocks (Oil, Naphtha, Propane) Since our last report, oil prices are significantly lower, naphtha prices are slightly lower and propane prices are higher. So, sort of a mixed bag but in general the global feedstocks for PGP and PP

Brainfood for the Plastics Industry, November 22

There is no Brainfood due to the holiday week. Below are a few bullets about PGP/PP: Physical PGP prices are down to 41.5cpp from 48.25cpp two weeks ago. Spot physical PGP prices reached a high of 50.5cpp on November 8th before falling significantly. BlueClover is

Brainfood for the Plastics Industry, November 8

Download Issue 23.21 Market Update Plastics Feedstocks (Oil, Naphtha, Propane) Since our last report, oil prices are significantly lower, naphtha is slightly lower and propane is unchanged. So, all upstream PP feedstock streams are either flat or lower in price. WTI crude oil prices are

Brainfood for the Plastics Industry, October 25

Download Issue 23.20 Market Update Plastics Feedstocks (Oil, Naphtha, Propane) Since our last report, oil and naphtha are unchanged in price, while propane pricing is slightly lower. WTI crude oil is unchanged over the past two weeks hanging around $85/barrel. The probably consensus was for