Ignore the warm, US natural gas prices will reignite
The NYMEX gas futures market sees cold next week and next-day cash prices retreat only a bit, despite warmer temperatures this week. Plus, a steel company found an unusual way to hedge its gas costs –...
19 Feb 20146min
A look ahead at natural gas prices for the coming summer
Platts natural gas editors Letitia Vasquez and Patrick Badgley take a step back from the price volatility the US has seen this winter and look ahead to the expectations for natural gas prices this sum...
10 Feb 20145min
Turkish polymer demand sinks due to currency turmoil
Anna Ward and Daved Chohan, Platts petrochemical editors based in Europe, discuss the impact of the weakness in the Turkish Lira on Turkey's polymer market and the short-term recovery seen in the poly...
7 Feb 20143min
Atlantic thermal coal supply in 2014
Platts' associate editors Jacqueline Holman and Jaime Concha discuss how recent Colombian coal supply disruptions have affected European-delivered spot prices and the repercussions on supply-demand fu...
5 Feb 20145min
US benzene price surge has ripple affect
Bernardo Fallas, managing editor of the Americas, and John Calton, associate editor for aromatics, delve into the factors behind the recent surge in benzene prices on the US Gulf Coast, what the marke...
4 Feb 20147min
Interview: Challenges facing carbon capture and storage in Europe
Ahead of Platts' annual CCS conference in Brussels February 18-19, Henry Edwardes-Evans spoke to Dr Graeme Sweeney, Chairman of the Zero Emissions Platform, on the European Commission's energy and cli...
29 Jan 201413min
US gas prices soar on Arctic blasts
US natural gas prices -- both future and spot -- are soaring as the nation sees unusual winter cold. Platts' Bentek unit sees at least 700 Bcf more gas coming out of storage by mid-February, worrying ...
28 Jan 20145min
Interview: Stephen Bowers, Evonik, on the outlook for European crude C4 market (part 2)
Platts petrochemicals editors, Miguel Cambeiro and Antonios Panagiotopoulos, talk to Stephen Bowers, Global Projects, Advanced Intermediates - Performance Intermediates, Evonik, on the challenges and ...
22 Jan 201411min
