This report provides an analysis of key developments in the ammonia and urea industry, including capacity updates, profitability, and pricing developments over the past quarter. The report includes monthly price and profitability analysis for ammonia and urea with a detailed discussion on the market forces (affecting price and profitability) over the third quarter in the United States, Western Europe, Middle East and China. The analysis now includes both mine-mouth plant economics and coastal plant economics for ammonia and urea in China. Outlook on firm  global capacity developments from 2015 to 2020 period is also provided. The ‘Key Trends and Challenges’ section discusses natural gas and ammonia/urea outlook in India.

This report provides analysis and forecast of supply and demand of the global aromatics market including benzene and para-xylene.  An overview of the toluene and mixed xylenes industry is also included.

This report contains analysis of current capacity, pricing and profitability developments in the methanol industry over the past quarter.  The ‘Key Challenges’ section discusses the use of methanol within fuel.  In recent years methanol’s application in fuel has created significant interest.  Blending methanol into gasoline for use in cars has been explored on a regional basis in China for many years, and in 2016 Israel has become the first country outside of China to pursue and implement a blend of 15 percent methanol (M15) for commercial use.  Outside of gasoline applications, there is also growing interest in using methanol as shipping fuel, with Stena Line operating ships that run on Methanol, and Methanex exploring using methanol itself as a fuel when shipping methanol globally.  Methanol provides attractive properties to reduce toxic emissions from combustion engines.  With greater attention towards using methanol more directly in fuel applications, this section looks at what role MTBE can play in the future.

This webinar presentation provides a comprehensive outlook of natural gas and ammonia/urea markets and pricing, highlighting Nexant’s World Gas Analytics Service (WGAS) and our SBA Ammonia Urea program expertise. The presentation covers global markets, with a focus on North American and Asian markets.