Chemicals Risk Market Data
Do you have adequate tools to confidently assess forward markets?
Find out how Platts Forward Curve data can offer a comprehensive solution.
How do you defend a valuation, price a hedge, or report fair value when chemical forward markets offer so few visible reference points?
Commodity markets are facing a new reality for managing market risk. Volatility arrives without warning, and positions marked against approximations or proxies from adjacent markets fall apart the moment they are questioned.
Chemicals Risk Market Data brings together forward curves, mark-to-market valuations, and risk metrics in a single connected solution. With 150+ daily forward prices across 40 regional curves, all sourced from one independent and verifiable provider, it delivers the transparency and consistency needed to navigate volatile markets. Risk teams can price hedges using curves tailored to their markets, finance teams can value positions with confidence, and treasury teams can gain clearer visibility into forward markets to anticipate risk and make more informed decisions.
S&P Global Energy Chemicals Market Data
How We Help Each Role
Risk Managers
- Calculate mark-to-market and VaR using market-derived curves, not internal estimates.
- Measure exposure with daily regional coverage across aromatics, polymers, and NGLs.
- Benchmark internal valuations against independent forward curves.
- Strengthen risk insights with pricing based on actual market activity.
Finance & Accounting Teams
- Support fair value reporting with transparent market-based valuations.
- Demonstrate valuation integrity using published methodologies.
- Trace every price back to clearly defined data sources and assessment processes.
- Defend reported values with auditable market evidence.
Treasury & Hedging Desks
- Price hedges using market-backed forward curves, not proxies.
- Access 40 regional forward curves across aromatics, polymers, and related markets.
- Optimize hedge ratios with daily updated market data.
- Align roll decisions with current market movements.
Planning & FP&A Teams
- Build budgets using market-implied forward prices.
- Forecast cash flows with curves extending up to 36 months.
- Anchor scenarios to actual forward market expectations.
- Reduce reliance on internal pricing assumptions.
Our Impact, by the Numbers
Key Features
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Forward Curves
Eliminate guesswork and strengthen fair value reporting with 40 regional forward curves across aromatics, polymers, and related markets.
- Access daily forward curves for key commodities including benzene, naphtha, Brent, propane, paraxylene, and methanol across Asia, EMEA, and the Americas.
- Support fair value reporting with market-reflective pricing at the close of each trading day and visibility up to 6 months forward.
- Enhance long-term planning with monthly benzene forward curves extending up to 24 months, backed by deep market expertise and historical data.
- Plan with greater confidence using daily NGL forward curves for propane, butane, isobutane, natural gasoline, and ethane, extending up to 36 months at major hubs such as Mont Belvieu and Conway.
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Market-to-Market Valuation
Report your positions easily using consistent forward curve assessments built for financial risk management. We use clear rules and plain language to explain our data sources, helping your finance teams support their valuations anytime they are questioned.
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Financial Risk Metrics
Budget cash flows, forecast trends, and manage price risk effectively. Use our independent data to cross-check your internal curves, evaluate market conditions, and assign accurate market values to your assets.
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 S&P Global Energy Chemicals Risk 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 spanning oil, gas, agriculture, metals, shipping, power and more, connecting chemical value chains with related insights and services.
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