US, Asian zorba prices rise, but impact on other scrap items and alloys minimal
Though aluminum scrap sources in the US and Asia have noticed an uptick in zorba prices in the past month, prices of other scrap items have only inched upwards in the same time frame. Alloy prices, me...
9 Apr 20197min
IMO 2020: Evolving storage dynamics in Asia in the run up to 2020
The new sulfur cap set by the International Maritime Organization will be implemented in January 2020. As the sulfur cut is so drastic, from 3.5% to 0.5%, uncertainty continues to grip the industry, w...
5 Apr 20197min
Lessons from AFPM 2019: Crude grades, Venezuela, jet fuel, fires
S&P Global Platts oil market editors Seth Clare, Laura Huchzermeyer, Maria Eugenia Garcia and Daron Jones discuss the most talked about themes they heard while attending the American Fuel and Petroche...
2 Apr 20198min
US-China trade tensions in focus as the LNG2019 conference in Shanghai takes center stage
S&P Global Platts senior natural gas writer Harry Weber and Platts Analytics team lead for North America natural gas Ross Wyeno preview the upcoming LNG2019 conference in Shanghai with natural gas man...
30 Mars 20190s
California ISO's Steve Berberich talks renewables, storage and reliability
Increasing renewable integration is poised to transform the California power grid in the coming years. Steve Berberich, CEO and president of the California Independent System Operator, talks with Kass...
28 Mars 201920min
US Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 252 bodes well for future exploration in the region
US Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 252 saw the largest number of total high bids in two years and four auctions. The 30 oil company participants were willing to spend on more acreage to replenish their inve...
27 Mars 20194min
Weak dry bulk carrier market hits bunker fuel demand
S&P Global Platts editors Su Ling Teo and Andrew Khaw examine how the weakness in the dry bulk market, particularly following the dam collapse at a Vale mine dam in Brazil, which in turn stoked concer...
26 Mars 20195min
Container ships create occasional snarls for Houston Ship Channel traffic
Kristen Hays, senior petrochemicals editor, sits down with Josh Pedrick, managing editor for Americas aromatics, to talk about the growing headaches for the Houston Ship Channel. A number of container...
20 Mars 20198min
