World Petrochemicals

Analysis for Profitability

The World Petrochemicals Program (WP) is the world's premier petrochemical industry database, providing supply/demand and capacity analysis for 55 petrochemicals and plastics and 12 refinery products worldwide, with detail on more than 60 countries and regions. Since 1974, WP utilized a global network of consultants to develop current and future product balances for all major petrochemical products. These reports provide a focused analysis of market conditions on a global basis.

Each report is organized by product, with detailed capacity, production, consumption, and trade data by region and country. Each country section includes a review of the local markets and producers and a product balance by company, location, and country. Five-year histories and 10-year forecasts of supply/demand and capacity data are provided by product and country.

Segments are groups of reports linked together by their production process. Purchasers of WP’s segments or product families receive access to the powerful Scenario Planning System (ScPS), an essential tool for creating a consistent outlook between products in the chemical supply chain. The data can be easily exported into spreadsheets, where formulas can be edited and manipulated for further customized scenario planning.   

• Available WP Reports
• Methodology & Segments 
• ScPS Online (Subscribers Only)
• Ordering Info
• Market Analysis Product Coverage (PDF)
• Regions Covered

Sample Reports

• Sample product report - benzene
• Sample product report - polyethylene
• Sample - ScPS user interface (PDF)

MARGIN & PRICE ANALYSIS

Using the World Petrochemicals forecast supply/demand data as a guide to future industry conditions, the Margin & Price Analysis reports estimate future key product net feedstock margins (product price less key raw material cost) and prices for 51 products in four major market regions. 

Each Margin and Price Analysis report includes:

• Introduction, including study basis and background theory
• Description of SRIC’s unique methodology
• Macroeconomic and crude oil assumptions, global and regional
• Brief product base supply and demand assumptions
• Product price and margin forecasts going out 10 years
• Regional differentials in feedstocks and products (historical and forecast)
• Differentials among key feedstocks as well as base chemicals

• Available Margin & Price Analysis Reports
• Margin & Price Analysis Product Coverage (PDF)
  
• Ordering Info

Sample Reports

• Sample segment report – methanol (PDF)
• Sample data table – methanol (PDF)