Industry: Midstream & NGLs

At the 2018 ADI Forum, Shelley Corman‑Frisby, David McKellips, and Justin Rencurel from ADI provided key insights into the gas processing and midstream markets, highlighting the growing supply from the Permian and Northeast fueling Gulf Coast gas demand, and the resulting competition between shale plays. They also addressed the uncertain impact of new tax reform […]

At the 2018 ADI Forum, Uday Turaga, CEO of ADI Analytics, presented a 2018 oil and gas outlook, forecasting abundant and cheap natural gas, with new oil supply coming from U.S. onshore and OPEC. He highlighted rising oil demand from emerging markets and increasing gas demand driven by LNG and pipeline exports, positioning the U.S. […]

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Chemical industry summary The recently completed first quarter financial results reported for US chemical companies indicated year-over-year revenue growth and solid, if not record-setting margins for many commodity chemicals. Earnings were generally flat from last year’s Q1 levels, except for those companies leveraged to the commodities titanium dioxide and methanol, and to a lesser extent […]

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 forum analyzed natural gas/NGL markets and innovations, including demand, supply, pricing, investment, regulation, LNG, gas-to-liquids, and IoT.

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.

The U.S. shale boom spurred substantial NGL production growth, rising from 2,100 mbpd in 2010 to 3,300 mbpd in 2015. While further increases are projected through 2020, the rate of growth is expected to decelerate.

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, Tyler Wilson of ADI Analytics said the global LNG market was oversupplied, creating price pressure and uncertainty, yet U.S. LNG exports remained competitive due to low costs and a tolling model that reduced commodity price risk through stable liquefaction fees supported by redundant pipelines and diverse gas supply. He noted […]