Industry: Refining & fuels

ADI has launched monthly subscription service covering the North American downstream market. Our research service provides a monthly report comprising two parts. We provide research, market intelligence, analytics, and insights to help subscribers build a strategic, forward-looking view of downstream markets. This includes operations, assets, and the supply chain. The first part reviews historical data […]

Fuel economy standards for automobiles will have a bigger impact on oil demand than electric vehicles.

The ADI ForumTuesday, February 13, 2018Houston, TX ADI Analytics’ second annual conference, the ADI Forum was held on Tuesday, February 13, 2018 in Houston, Texas at the Norris Conference Center in CityCentre. The ADI Forum brought together oil and gas majors, E&P and refining independents, chemical players, diversified industrials, licensors, and investors to discuss markets, […]

North American refining is busy and making money again with important implications for the sector’s capital spending.

With LNG bunkering infrastructure established, identifying early vessel adopters requires evaluating LNG’s fuel advantages and disadvantages, and a simplified vessel classification.

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. […]

The Methanol Institute (MI) commissioned ADI to prepare a study on the economic and employment impacts of the U.S. methanol industry. The study concluded that the availability of abundant and cheap shale gas supplies significantly advantages domestic production of methanol in the U.S. Any investments in new methanol production capacity could create a significant economic […]

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.

ADI Analytics has launched a multi-client study analyzing the U.S. outlook for gasoline and octane. The study examines key near- and long-term drivers influencing gasoline and octane supply, demand, and value. Below are the key topics covered in the study: We welcome you to join this study. As a subscriber, you’ll have multiple options to […]

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 […]