A sample of our Profitabilty and Price Forecast report (with reference to the polypropylene market).The Profitability and Price Forecast report provides long-term profitability and price projections to 2045 for the major price setting regions under three distinct crude oil scenarios.  NexantECA’s robust price forecasting methodology consolidates the many price influences in petrochemical markets.  The methodology has been enhanced over 40 years of industry observations and associated price sets are used extensively to support investment decisions in capital intensive assets with a long production life cycle.Profitability analysis is available for each key price setting region:Asia Pacific (China and South East Asia),Middle East,Western Europe,United States. 

Analysis of the profitability of the petrochemical and polymers industry in Asia Pacific, Western Europe and the United States for the fourth quarter of 2023. 

This report presents the methodology and assumptions used to generate the archetype cost of production models, supporting the analysis included in the QBA reports, which are published at the end of each quarter through the year.  Over 600 models are available to download from the NexantECA client portal.   This report is specifically geared to provision of technological and cost data, defining the configuration of all archetype plant cost models.  Although archetype plants are not modelled directly on any specific production asset, the capacity and process consumption factors of plant models are reviewed, to ensure they reflect the spread demonstrated by actual operating units.  The cost of production models presented in this report display the current plant capacity, yield patterns, and utility consumption factors for the models used in the 2023 QBA Program.  

This report provides profitability and price projections to 2045 for naphtha, propylene and polypropylene.  The main price setting regions of Asia Pacific, Western Europe and the United States are analysed.