Chemicals
To succeed in chemicals, you need all the elements.
Gain a comprehensive understanding of the chemical industry with our extensive market coverage spanning feedstocks, base chemicals, derivatives, intermediates, specialties, and end-use markets. Access tailored data solutions covering price assessments, supply, demand, price forecast, trade, costs, margins, capacity, production, assets, outages, and news.
Spot opportunities and mitigate risks by accessing chemical data and insights that are seamlessly integrated with S&P Global’s coverage of crude oil, refined products, NGLs, economic indicators, freight and trade for a holistic perspective on the entire chemical value chain.
Ideal For
Trading
- Identify profitable trading opportunities
- Managing trading risk
- Access to short-term forecasts
- Develop point of view on short-term market movements
Sales and Marketing
- Identify the right selling opportunities
- Negotiate contracts with confidence
- Optimize your customer and product portfolio
- Reduce risk in trading decisions
Strategic Planners
- Deliver a credible business strategy
- Validate investment plans
- Identify market opportunities and risks
- Assess the competitive landscape
Procurement
- Source chemical raw materials
- Optimize supplier portfolio
- Make informed buying decisions
- Negotiate effective supply contracts
Markets Covered
- Olefins & Derivatives
- Aromatics & Derivatives
- Plastics & Polymers
- Methanol & Derivatives
- Inorganics & Derivatives
- Intermediates
- Solvents
- Specialty and Performance Chemicals
- Petrochemical Feedstocks
- End-use Markets
Chemical Capabilities
Price Assessments & Benchmarks
Price assessments for over 75 chemical markets for all global regions including market commentary, rationales, and heards.
News
Unbiased, credible, forward-thinking analysis of the chemical industry. We offer real-time market activity insights, market moving news, and commentary.
Analysis & Forecasts
Provides coverage across 400+ markets, price forecasts, and both short and long-term supply and demand forecasts, alongside trade data and forecasts.
- Commodity & Intermediate Chemicals
- Specialty Chemicals
Assets & Companies
Comprehensive database of chemicals producers, assets and capacities.
Process Technology
New technologies can either offer an opportunity or pose a threat. Our analysis contains over 2,100 chemical production processes, allowing you to uncover the impact of changes in processes, feedstocks, energy prices, and government regulations on chemical and fuel production economics.
Cost & Margins
Assess the cost and margin positions of operating chemical plants according to geography, capacity, time, technology, feedstock, operating rate and integration level.
Chemical Solutions
Chemical Market Data
Over >5,000 price assessments for >75 chemical markets. Our robust and market-tested methodologies for chemicals pricing assessments ensure un-matched transparency of the deep market data we provide every day to enable our customers to make confident decisions effectively while operating in the complex chemicals markets.
Chemical Market Risk
Approximately 40 assessments of forward curves as well as spreads and differentials assessed and quantitively derived forward curves to provide risk management support for key trading hubs.
Chemical Market Insights
Our market insight of over 400+ chemicals covering everything from chemical feedstocks to chemical building blocks, their derivatives, all the way to performance chemicals. Get access to daily pricing, real-time market updates, breaking news, analysis, forecasts, fundamental data, and tools.