Industry: Chemicals & Plastics

Chemical industry summary The 6-month anniversary of OPEC’s decision to limit crude oil production will occur at the end of May, and the decision to re-authorize production cut targets is pending. The current news flow prompts many analysts to anticipate that the production cut targets will remain in place in 2017, perhaps extended to 9 […]

Chemical Industry Summary  The financial community’s consensus estimates for US chemical companies indicates that they are expected to reportQ1earnings most reports will be flat with last year. Companies leveraged to the olefins/polyolefins chain are seeing a relatively strong, but lower margins. Improvement is expected from US companies that are leveraged to the chlor-vinyl’s chain (including […]

Increased regulatory scrutiny impacts the natural gas and NGL value chain, focusing on flaring, emissions, seismicity, and wastewater management.

The event covered natural gas/NGL market dynamics and innovations: demand, supply, pricing, strategy, investment, regulation, small-scale LNG, gas-to-liquids, and Industrial IoT.

Chemical industry summary  After trading in a stable range of US$5/Bbl. for several months, the last week has seen global crude oil prices soften roughly 10% with WTI prices now trading below US$48/Bbl. The current weakness of pricing is related to recent inventory and production data that have cast doubt on the potential for global […]

At the 2017 ADI Forum, industry leaders Dmitry Popov, Infra Technology; Joseph Gentry, GTC Technology; Riley Hagan, Ethanext; and Stephen Sims, NGTS North America, shared their insights as they discussed the future of natural gas conversion. They explored cutting-edge technologies, market opportunities, and the key challenges in transforming natural gas into high-value fuels and chemicals. […]

Chemical industry summary The Q4 earnings reporting season is now more than halfway complete and reported earnings for US companies have either been near expected levels or have demonstrated some upside versus consensus estimates. Many companies are reporting positive earnings momentum and express cautious optimism for 2017 based on macro trends. While there is a […]

Chemical industry summary  The Q4 earnings reporting season will be in full bloom by the final week in January. While Q4 results will likely represent a mixed bag of year-on-year financial performance, the consensus is for 2017 to show improvement in key economic drivers and industry prices and volumes. Earnings growth estimates for US companies […]

This report summarizes ADI Analytics’ 2017 outlook webinar for the oil & gas, energy, and chemicals sectors. Presented by ADI Analytics’ CEO, Uday Turaga, it considers major impending shifts such as the OPEC deal, the U.S. election, Brexit, slowing emerging economies, electric vehicles, and new regulations. The outlook covers five key segments: This overview provides […]

The oil, gas, energy, and chemical sectors face significant uncertainties in 2017, including OPEC agreements, geopolitical shifts, economic slowdowns, and evolving regulations, which ADI has analyzed in its outlook.

Chemical industry summary  The conclusion of OPEC’s annual meeting in Vienna on November 30th has touched off a rally in the global crude oil market that has multiple implications for chemicals and regional competitiveness. WTI crude pricing has moved up about US$4/Bbl. on the speculation that an announced OPEC production cut of 1.2 million barrels […]

Chemical industry summary The US political election in November resulted in an outcome that was not predicted by most polls, with Republican Party presidential candidate Donald Trump winning a majority of the electoral college vote and becoming president elect. This election has widespread ramifications for the US chemical and energy industries, as important branches of […]