ICIS Americas Podcast

News reporter Christie Moffat speaks to ICIS senior editor Judith Taylor about the US fatty alcohols market, looking at contract settlements and other factors affecting the industry, heading into the second quarter.

News reporter Christie Moffat speaks to ICIS senior editor Judith Taylor about the US paraffin wax market, including the impact of crude oil volatility, the state of supply and demand, alternative waxes in use in the US, and expectations for the second quarter of 2016.

News reporter Christie Moffat speaks to ICIS senior editor Judith Taylor about the US base oils market, including first quarter prices, factors driving price changes in the market, the state of supply and demand, and various market shifts we can expect to see continuing throughout the year.

News reporter Christie Moffat speaks to deputy news editor Al Greenwood and managing editor for the Americas, Jeremy Pafford, about the upcoming American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM) international petrochemical conference (IPC) (20-22 March) coming up in Dallas, Texas.

Anticipated topics under discussion at AFPM include updates on the wave of crackers due to come online in 2017 and onwards, as well as the outlook for ethane and demand for polyethylene.

News reporter Christie Moffat speaks to deputy news editor Al Greenwood about the upcoming Plastimagen trade show (8-11 March) in Mexico City, Mexico. The show is one of the largest of its kind in the western hemisphere, a result of Mexico’s robust and growing plastics industry.

News reporter Christie Moffat speaks to deputy news editor Al Greenwood and ICIS Mexico Energy Report editor James Fowler about what to expect at this year’s CERAWeek conference (22-26 February) in Houston, Texas.

In the first ICIS Americas podcast for 2016, news reporter Christie Moffat speaks to ICIS senior market editors Ignacio Sotolongo and Bobbie Clark, and ICIS market reporter Annalise Little about the volatile market dynamics of crude oil.

With crude continuing to fall and no end in sight, Sotolongo, Clark and Little discuss how production and growing inventories are affecting the global economy and downstream refined products.

US base oil market fundamentals could shift in 2016 amid changes in production and demand, ICIS Americas senior market editor Judith Taylor tells podcast host Dustin Hall in this episode recorded on Tuesday.

Taylor looks back at base oil developments during 2015 and looks at market expectations for the new year.

US ammonia prices have fallen nearly $200/tonne since January, ICIS Americas fertilizer market editor Mark Milam tells podcast host Dustin Hall in this episode recorded on Wednesday.

Milam explains factors that weighed on domestic ammonia throughout the year and looks at market sentiment for 2016.

In this ICIS Americas podcast, senior market editor John Dietrich discusses the US ethylene market with pricing reporter Dustin Hall.

Dietrich examines factors that have weighed on ethylene prices in recent weeks and looks back on how the market weathered a year of volatility in 2015.