The Oil/Petrochemicals imbalance

Global Oil Markets Podcast

English - October 17, 2018 18:00 - 8 minutes - 12.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 10 ratings
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Despite the environmental pressure on plastics, petrochemical demand is booming. Given the link to oil via naphtha and propane, Platts reporters Philip Reeder and Lara Berton discuss with Joel Hanley the impact of weak petroleum feedstock prices and the large pethchem plant outages on the way.