Chemicals Market Data
The numbers you need to gauge markets, ready to seize opportunities as the markets move.
How can you negotiate, trade, and manage risk with confidence when chemical prices move across three continents in weeks?
Chemicals Market Data is a comprehensive solution that brings together a suite of top-tier products: daily Platts price assessments, market news and heard intelligence, chemical freight data, and real-time eWindow trading information, all in one place. Trading desks price deals on numbers the market accepts. Procurement teams negotiate contracts from a position of knowledge. Risk managers mark positions against benchmarks both sides of the table recognize.
The numbers you need to gauge markets, ready the moment markets move.
S&P Global Energy Chemicals Market Data
How We Help Each Role
Traders
- Execute transactions using real-time price assessments across 2,000+ chemicals and feedstocks.
- Track intraday pricing, bids, offers, trades, and market sentiment, and access shipping costs and cargo routes.
- Eliminate reliance on laggy, stale market numbers with daily and weekly updates.
Procurement Managers
- Negotiate from a position of strength using trusted, mutually accepted Platts/IOSCO benchmarks.
- Benchmark supplier proposals against historical pricing cycles dating back to 1982.
- Calculate true delivered economics and netbacks using localized ocean and land freight data.
- Compare suppliers on true bottom-line economics rather than headline quotes.
Finance & Risk Analysts
- Stress-test budgets and business plans against realistic market trajectories.
- Mark positions and settle contracts confidently using IOSCO-compliant, PRA-registered benchmarks.
- Identify vulnerable competitors during margin compression using asset-level cost curve data.
Strategy & Market Analysts
- Uncover repeating cyclical patterns using four decades of granular price history.
- Analyze the entire value chain from upstream feedstocks to downstream specialty chemicals—to eliminate blind spots.
- Anticipate market trends before they reach broader industry consensus.
Our Impact, by the Numbers
Key Features
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Price Assessments
Price your deals using current numbers that the industry accepts worldwide. Access assessments for 2,000+ chemicals and feedstocks, updated daily, weekly, or monthly, with global coverage across 100+ markets and growing.
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Real-Time News and Structured Heards
Stay ahead of geopolitical events, new regulations, and emerging risks. Gain immediate access to breaking news, market commentary, and heard intelligence from industry sources, delivered in a structured format designed for easy analysis and direct ingestion into your workflows.
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Transparent Methodology
Build trust in your valuation process using pricing built on a transparent system reviewed by regulators and industry bodies. The Market on Close principle brings absolute transparency across hydrocarbons, feedstocks, and chemicals with openly published methodologies.
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Historical Pricing to 1982
Spot patterns, benchmark current prices against past cycles, and negotiate from a position of knowledge instead of guesswork. Access more than four decades of price history to support your strategic planning.
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Chemical Freight Data
Turn regional prices into true delivered economics by powering your landed-cost, netback, and pricing-equivalent calculations. Track shipping costs and routes for chemical cargoes between key regions.
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eWindow Market Data
Gain an at-a-glance view of all named bids, offers, and transactions shared during the Platts Market on Close assessment process. Access real-time derivative data on naphtha, MTBE, and paraxylene, as well as swaps data for naphtha and propane.
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Events and Support
Contact chemical industry specialists, attend regional and global events, participate in webinars, and use our learning center and 24/7 client support to get the answers you need.
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AI-Powered Real-Time Market Activity
Platts Smart Heards
Track intraday pricing, market activity, and emerging opportunities as they develop with Platts Smart Heards, an AI-powered structured data set.
- See opportunities before they become obvious to the wider market
- Monitor real-time bids, offers, trades, and pricing
- Follow the grades, locations, and markets shaping price direction
- Turn market activity into faster, more informed decisions
- Bring structured intelligence directly into your workflows
- Deeper market transparency, with intelligence shared by market participants.
Built on exclusive Platts Market Heards, Smart Heards delivers market intelligence you won't find anywhere else.
AI-Powered Data and Insights
Three ways our AI solutions puts decades of chemicals intelligence to work for you:
Data Delivered Your Way
Core Platform
Customizable visual interface with integrated Chat AI
API
Direct data integration and access
Excel Add-in
Seamless spreadsheet integration
Cloud
Multi-provider deployment (Snowflake, AWS, Azure, Databricks, GCP, Alibaba)
Python SDK& Notebooks
Developer tools and analytics environment
AI
Chat AI, AI-Ready Data, AI Addendum, MCP
Why Chemicals Market Data
A century of price reporting
For 100+ years we have delivered Platts assessments for physical and forward markets, in established and emerging markets alike.
The industry standard
250+ Platts benchmarks referenced in pricing negotiations and contracts worldwide. Numbers both sides of the table accept.
Methodology you can inspect
IOSCO-compliant Market on Close process, PRA-registered, with methodologies openly published. Nothing behind a curtain.
Specialists on every commodity
Dedicated pricing teams for each market, so assessments reflect the real nuances of how chemicals actually trade.
An independent view
Platts does not trade the markets it assesses. Impartiality is why market participants on both sides trust the number.
The full value chain, across commodities- connected
A fully integrated platform covering oil, gas, agriculture, metals, shipping, power, and the full chemical value chain, including Petrochemical feedstocks, Aromatics, Olefins (Ethylene, Propylene, and C4s), Methanol, Solvents, Polymers, Chlor-alkalis, Inorganics, Intermediates, Specialty chemicals, and End-use markets.
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