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Increased soybean demand in Brazil during the Covid-19 pandemic has boosted the country’s imports, despite Brazil achieving its highest ever soybean crop this year, narrowing the country’s trade balance in this commodity. What’s behind this trend and which markets could benefit in the short-to-medium term? 

In this week's episode of Market Talks, Argus’ Brazil Bureau Chief, Camila Dias, and Agriculture and Fertilizer Reporter, Jose Roberto Gomes, analyze the changes in Brazil’s soybean trade balance.

Tune in to learn about the progress of the IMO 2020 cap and the impact of Covid-19 with host Nicolas Ganas, Business Development Manager - Oil Products, and Adrian Tolson, Director, BLUE Insight, and IBIA board member.

In this episode, The Petcoke Podcast travels to Turkey to discuss the latest developments for the cement and coke markets there.

Argus' Erisa Senerdem speaks to Ezgi Kayahan, Procurement Executive at Akçansa, one of Turkey's largest cement makers, for her views on the impact Covid-19 has had and will have on the supply chain, and on the outlook for Turkish cement plants’ sales and fuel mix in 2020.

Petrokok podcast’inin bu bölümünde Türkiye çimento ve petrokok piyasalarındaki gelişmeleri ele alıyoruz. Argus’dan Erisa Şenerdem, Türkiye’nin en büyük çimento üreticilerinden olan Akçansa’nın Satın Alma Yöneticisi Ezgi Kayahan ile Covid-19’un sektörün satışlarını, tedarik zincirini ve yakıt karışımlarını nasıl etkilediğini ve yılın geri kalanında sektörü nelerin beklediğini konuşuyor.

Hurricane Laura made landfall in western Louisiana on August 27 and packed sustained winds of 150 miles per hour. In this episode, we take a moment to look at the downstream impacts on the domestic LPG market and the impact observed in the US petrochemicals sector following the event. Amy Strahan, Editor of Argus NGL Americas, is joined by Michael Camarda, who is responsible for Argus’ daily ethylene and propylene coverage in the US, and polymers editor Michelle Klump.

Covid-19 and its related demand destruction has challenged the Canadian oil sands sector with losses, but producers have been well-prepared for turbulence after overcoming previous challenges. Brett Holmes, Reporter, discusses how producers have dealt with pipeline outages, forest fires and swelling inventories, and how larger producers look ready to capitalize on any recover in the back half of the year.

O modelo brasileiro de comercialização de biodiesel por meio de leilões públicos começa a apresentar sinais de desgaste e, apesar da redução no percentual de mescla obrigatória, incertezas acerca do abastecimento colocam este mecanismo em cheque. Qual a visão dos atores deste mercado e quais as perspectivas para mudança deste modelo?

No episódio desta semana da série Falando de Mercado, Camila Dias, chefe de redação da Argus no Brasil, conversa com Gabrielle Moreira, repórter de combustíveis, sobre as perspectivas para um novo modelo de comercialização de biodiesel no Brasil.

Renewable fuels and their importance in the market have seen an uptick this year. Our experts, Louise Burke and Jackie Reigle, discuss Argus’ 30 new daily US renewable feedstock assessments and give an overview of the renewables market.

This first of four podcast episodes considers how the freight market affects jet fuel prices around the globe. Over the next few weeks we will be discussing the price implications of three major jet fuel trade routes, Middle East to Europe, Asia to the U.S. West coast, and U.S. Gulf coast to Latin America. In this first episode, Louise Burke and Alex Younevitch give you a global breakdown of jet fuel prices and how they are responding to the changing freight market.

Earlier in August, the third lift of Guyana’s Liza crude was loaded from the ExxonMobil-operated Stabroek block. Guyana received $46/bl for its share, $11/bl more than the second lift back in May. This episode of The Crude Report, featuring reporter Monica Rojas Hidalgo, takes a look at Guyana’s promising future as an oil exporting country and expectations from its recently-elected government.