Platts Olefinscan
Overview
With the global olefins market changing, having access to information on the key drivers behind feedstock and derivative price trends is crucial. Platts Olefinscan is a weekly price assessment and market insight report that provides you with the latest olefin prices, including ethylene, propylene, and butadiene prices.
Key Benefits
Understand the key drivers for feedstock and derivative prices;
Analyze key market activity and create custom price trend graphs to help you keep up to date with olefins market price movements as a basis for spot and contract negotiations.
Help your sales team visualize ethylene and propylene price trends and act on opportunities using the informative olefin pricing charts depicting historic and current market activity.
Create a competitive ethylene and propylene pricing strategy that can help you stay on top of the markets, negotiate best value and protect your margins.
Analyze production economics using Platts Petrochemical Cracker Margin Index to calculate your costs in advance.
Analyze price patterns to identify trends in the global olefin sector that will enable you to seize opportunities as they arise.
Stay connected to the latest price changes and market news with online and mobile access.
Product Features
- Industry news on the global olefin markets of the Americas, Europe, and Asia
- Sophisticated charting tools
- Exclusive analysis of key market and pricing trends
- Personalized alerts
- The latest insight from S&P Global Energy editorial team
- Weekly PDF market report, online and mobile access
Closing market assessments and weekly prices for:
- Ethylene
- Propylene
- Ethylene Glycol
- Butadiene
- NWE Crude C4 / Raffinate 1
- Last settled US olefins contracts
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Why S&P Global Energy?
Unparalleled Experience
For 100+ years, we've delivered Platts price assessments for physical and forward markets. Customers count on us for news, pricing, and analytics, ensuring transparent, efficient markets for confident decisions.
Trusted benchmark pricing
Provides industry benchmark price indices with robust, transparent, proven methodologies, that guarantees data integrity with stringent quality controls, and adherence to strict guidelines and IOSCO principles.
Integrated European market pricing coverage
Covers 16 European hubs—natural gas, power, renewables, nuclear and coal —in one connected pricing service.
Historical view of Pricing
Comprehensive price history back to 1985 supports deep analysis of historical price trends to better understand the current market dynamics and forecast potential price movements resulting from similar previous geopolitical events.