Methanol Strategic Business Analysis (SBA) report reviews the fundamental business drivers and dynamics, markets, pricing, technology, and delivered cost competitiveness.
This study assesses developing technologies for acrylic acid production using bio-based and new petroleum-based feedstocks. It provides an economic analysis of the cash cost of production to produce acrylic acid via renewable sources versus petrochemical sources.
This report provides an analysis of key developments in the methanol industry, including capacity updates, profitability and pricing developments over the past quarter. Updated price forecasts based upon revised oil scenarios are provided.
Propylene oxide evaluates production technologies. Process economics for the chlorohydrin, cumene hydroperoxide, HPPO, POSM, PO/MTBE, and “green” PO have been developed on a multi-regional basis.
This report assesses the cost competitiveness of ethylene, on-purpose propylene, HDPE/LDPE/LLDPE, PP, VCM/PVC, EO/EG, Bz, SM, PX, PTA, MeOH and EtOH for USGC, Brazil, North Western and Eastern Europe, Middle East, Japan, Korea, Thailand, China, India, Singapore, and Canada.
Nexant has developed an efficient and accurate price forecasting system that requires minimal data manipulation and generates totally self-consistent price forecast scenarios across wide families of chemical products. Using this technique, this new report examines the impact of hgh future oil prices on the profitability and competitiveness of a broad range of chemical products.