Petrochemical Simulator

Providing long term forecasts and scenario planning for the global petrochemicals and polymers industry...

NexantECA’s Petrochemical Simulator is the only fully-integrated, process-driven, global industry model to improve business planning and decision-making.  Analytics from the Petrochemical Simulator underpins the Markets and Profitability subscription program. 

Analysis covers two key areas: Markets and Economics

Markets

Analysis is segmented into three principle areas:

• Consumption: Assesses historic and forecast consumption of over 60 petrochemicals and polymers.  Forecasts are based on projections of economic activity and diverse end-use applications across key consuming industry sectors.

• Supply: Over 1900 plants globally are currently included within the Petrochemical Simulator and monitored on a monthly basis.  Each plant is identified by producer, capacity, location and process.

• Supply, Demand and Trade: Provides historical analysis and forecasts to 2050 of consumption, production, imports/exports, inventory build-up/decline, capacity and capacity utilisation for forty countries.

Economics

• Includes Profitability, Pricing and Cost Competitiveness focused on the major price setting regions - Asia Pacific (South-East Asia and China), Middle East, Western Europe and the United States.

• Over 600 cost of production models are included within the Petrochemical Simulator.  Analysis can provide costs, prices and margins for typical production assets, generating a view of regional and value chain competitiveness. 

• Generates long-term profitability and price projections to 2050 under three distinct crude oil scenarios. 

The Petrochemical Simulator includes historic data from 2000, with long term market, profitability and price forecasts to 2052.