China LPG Market Weekly Report
Built on comprehensive coverage of China’s LPG market fundamentals, downstream sectors’ demand indicators, and economics comparison, this report helps market participants assess weekly market balances, understand pricing drivers, and anticipate near-term changes across the LPG market.
- LPG Price and Market Dynamics: Tracks China’s domestic LPG and downstream product prices alongside international LPG and crude oil markets, helping market participants assess price movements and the factors shaping market sentiment.
- Weekly Supply-Demand Balance Monitoring: Integrates China’s LPG production, import cargo arrivals, and downstream consumption across major chemical applications to quantify weekly supply-demand balances and identify changes that may influence price direction.
- Supply Monitoring from Refinery Output to Import Arrivals: Tracks China’s LPG production, sales, refinery operating and maintenance activity, import cargo arrivals, and vessel schedules to provide a detailed view of current and upcoming supply availability.
- Downstream Feedstock Demand and Operating Rate Analysis: Monitors LPG consumption in chemical applications, including operating rates and production volumes of alkylation, MTBE, PDH, and other downstream units, helping identify changes in feedstock demand.
- LPG Industry-Chain Cost and Profitability Assessment: Evaluates feedstock costs, downstream product prices, and profit margins across key LPG-linked units, including PDH, MTBE, alkylation and steam cracking, to assess cost pressures, operating economics, and changes in downstream purchasing capacity.
- LPG Futures and Spot Market Monitoring: Combines futures prices, basis levels, warehouse receipts, and domestic spot prices to provide a detailed view of futures-spot correlation and its impact on domestic market pricing.
- Inventory Developments Across Production and Import Markets: Tracks both producer- and port-level inventories, together with supply, arrivals, and demand developments, helping market participants identify inventory accumulation or destocking and assess supply-demand imbalance.
- Weekly Market Outlook and Key Drivers: Combines supply, demand, inventory, cost, profitability, and international market context to forecast near-term LPG price trends in China and highlight the key factors likely to shape the market in the coming week.
Publishing day: Every Monday, except for Chinese public holidays.
