Podcast - China LPG market weekly takeaway: prices reverse as crude falls and buying slows

China's LPG market rose from October 30th to November 5th, although upward momentum weakened toward the end of the week as crude oil prices fell sharply and domestic trading slowed.

Despite higher weekly average prices, rising import arrivals and cautious buying pushed port inventories up nearly 7% to 2.32 million tonnes.

Key takeaways:

Falling crude prices triggered a late-week pullback in international LPG prices, while China's domestic residential LPG and etherified C4 prices rose higher week on week.
Import arrivals surged nearly 28% to 764,000 tonnes, driving port inventories higher amid weaker chemical consumption and cautious buying.
Lower import arrivals and recovering chemical demand may tighten China's overall LPG supply-demand balance in the coming week, although China's LPG prices are expected to decline by around 100 yuan per tonne.

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