other feedstocks

5 min read 2021-12-20 07:55:36

Global PP market and Omicron: deflationary pressures build

By John Richardson THE OMICRON outbreak is piling further pressure on already extremely stressed supply chains as Europe struggles to cope with the

5 min read 2021-12-10 07:58:16

By John Richardson NEW STEAM cracker projects are still being announced on the assumption that they will still be needed 20 years and more from now

5 min read 2021-11-30 19:52:54

By John Richardson THE CHART BELOW shows that 60% of global benzene production in 2021-2040 is forecast to be made via technologies linked to

5 min read 2021-11-30 19:52:54

By John Richardson THE CHART BELOW shows that 60% of global benzene production in 2021-2040 is forecast to be made via technologies linked to

6 min read 2021-11-24 06:07:56

By John Richardson WE ALL NEED TO ASK ourselves whether the global patterns in polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP) pricing and margins that we

1 min read 2021-11-24 06:07:56

By John Richardson WE ALL NEED TO ASK ourselves whether the global patterns in polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP) pricing and margins that we

8 min read 2021-11-22 07:52:12

By John Richardson THE BALTIC DRY INDEX, one of the excellent barometers of overall economic activity, was late last week at its lowest level since

1 min read 2021-11-22 07:52:12

By John Richardson THE BALTIC DRY INDEX, one of the excellent barometers of overall economic activity, was late last week at its lowest level since

6 min read 2021-11-12 09:01:11

By John Richardson RARELY, IF EVER, have events felt so bafflingly complex in the global polyethylene (PE) business. Take as an example the chart

6 min read 2021-11-08 08:56:05

The implications of last week’s disappointing COP26 meeting in Glasgow are so complex and so numerous that is going to take more than one blog post

1 min read 2021-11-08 08:56:05

The implications of last week’s disappointing COP26 meeting in Glasgow are so complex and so numerous that is going to take more than one blog post

1 min read 2021-11-05 08:02:56

By John Richardson IF YOU THINK that forecasting the direction of China’s petrochemicals demand has become complicated enough because of

1 min read 2021-10-18 08:00:36

By John Richardson WHEN I worked for a UK local newspaper as a “cub” or junior reporter in the 1980s, there was a major international air crash.

1 min read 2021-07-08 13:49:04

Note that, as always, the views expressed here are personal. Thank you. By John Richardson Executive Summary The big Western energy companies –

1 min read 2021-06-27 13:22:56

By John Richardson SEE THE END section of this blog post for a dystopian version of our environmental future. In a follow-up post – which I will