Oil price crash and COVID-19: A two-pronged impact on global petrochemical markets
S&P Global Platts market specialists Kirsten Hays, Eric Su, and Simon Price join associate director Vanessa Ronsisvalle to give a global view on how the impact of the coronavirus pandemic and the rece...
24 Mar 202016min
Steel market adapts to rapid changes as coronavirus spreads across US
Unlike other commodities sectors, the domestic steel market seemed to be largely immune during the first few weeks of Covid-19's spread across the US. Prices held relatively steady and mill production...
20 Mar 202012min
China's tax rebate a welcome relief to domestic producers, but bunkering hub aspirations still far from reality
China's long-awaited value-added-tax rebate on fuel oil paved the way for domestic producers to supply bunker fuel to ships plying international routes at Chinese ports. A month after its implementati...
20 Mar 20208min
Sugar in the time of coronavirus
With commodities weakening on the back of the coronavirus epidemic and the oil price crash, Robert Beaman of S&P Global Platts talks to sugar specialists Nicolle Monteiro de Castro and Beatriz Pupo ab...
18 Mar 202018min
Pessimism spreads in US LNG sector as coronavirus exacerbates market woes
US LNG developers face challenges advancing any new export projects this year amid the escalating coronavirus outbreak, which has exacerbated the drop in global demand that has already led to record-l...
17 Mar 202011min
Part 2: Plunging oil prices, pandemic having dramatic downstream impact
With oil prices off roughly 30% in the past week in face of falling demand triggered by the coronavirus pandemic, impacts in the downstream are far-reaching. Changes in crude flows, refinery operation...
13 Mar 202020min
Part 1: Volatility in global markets creates havoc for upstream US oil, gas and LNG
The ongoing and extreme volatility in world oil markets has triggered a range of industry dynamics in the US. Editors from S&P Global Platts and S&P Global Market Intelligence examine the latest marke...
12 Mar 202011min
Asian naphtha reels from fall in China's petrochemical consumption, import demand
S&P Global Platts refined products experts Wendy Cheong and Wanda Wang focus on the impact of lockdown policies in parts of China on petrochemical deliveries, the buildup in stocks, and the effect on ...
11 Mar 20206min
