This report provides an analysis of key developments in the methanol industry, including capacity updates, profitability and pricing developments over the past quarter.
Methanol Strategic Business Analysis (SBA) identifies the strategic trends and issues that shape the industry. Reviews the fundamental business drivers and dynamics; markets, pricing, technology, and delivered cost competitiveness.
This supplement provides a cost of production for olefins and polyolefins in many locations around the world. In addition, the effect of ethane from U.S. shale gas and bio-ethylene from sugar cane and Russian ethane has been studied.
Propylene was historically available as a co-product of naphtha cracking. The switch to lighter feedstocks from shale gas resulted in a decline in cracker propylene co-production. This report examines the process technologies and economics for the propylene production.
This study catalogues and assesses global progress of the sector comprised of companies commercializing renewable chemicals production, considering a wide range of chemicals, including drop-in, identical substitutes for incumbent petrochemicals, and new types of molecules that can substitute for the incumbents.
This report evaluates the current status of development and economics of emerging algae-based fuels and chemicals players. Open pond, PBR, heterotrophic, and algae-to-ethanol projects and technologies were investigated.
This report provides an assessment of commodity polymer production using feedstocks derived from renewable sources including corn, sugarcane, and other types of biomass as compared to traditional petrochemical feedstocks.