Chemicals
To succeed in chemicals, you need all the elements.
Gain a comprehensive understanding of the chemical industry with our extensive market coverage spanning feedstocks, base chemicals, derivatives, intermediates, specialties, and end-use markets. Access tailored data solutions covering price assessments, supply, demand, price forecast, trade, costs, margins, capacity, production, assets, outages, and news.
Spot opportunities and mitigate risks by accessing chemical data and insights that are seamlessly integrated with S&P Global’s coverage of crude oil, refined products, NGLs, economic indicators, freight and trade for a holistic perspective on the entire chemical value chain.
Ideal For
Trading
- Identify profitable trading opportunities
- Managing trading risk
- Access to short-term forecasts
- Develop point of view on short-term market movements
Sales and Marketing
- Identify the right selling opportunities
- Negotiate contracts with confidence
- Optimize your customer and product portfolio
- Reduce risk in trading decisions
Strategic Planners
- Deliver a credible business strategy
- Validate investment plans
- Identify market opportunities and risks
- Assess the competitive landscape
Procurement
- Source chemical raw materials
- Optimize supplier portfolio
- Make informed buying decisions
- Negotiate effective supply contracts
Markets Covered
- Olefins & Derivatives
- Aromatics & Derivatives
- Plastics & Polymers
- Methanol & Derivatives
- Inorganics & Derivatives
- Intermediates
- Solvents
- Specialty and Performance Chemicals
- Petrochemical Feedstocks
- End-use Markets
Chemical Capabilities
Price Assessments & Benchmarks
Price assessments for over 75 chemical markets for all global regions including market commentary, rationales, and heards.
News
Unbiased, credible, forward-thinking analysis of the chemical industry. We offer real-time market activity insights, market moving news, and commentary.
Analysis & Forecasts
Provides coverage across 400+ markets, price forecasts, and both short and long-term supply and demand forecasts, alongside trade data and forecasts.
- Commodity & Intermediate Chemicals
- Specialty Chemicals
Assets & Companies
Comprehensive database of chemicals producers, assets and capacities.
Process Technology
New technologies can either offer an opportunity or pose a threat. Our analysis contains over 2,100 chemical production processes, allowing you to uncover the impact of changes in processes, feedstocks, energy prices, and government regulations on chemical and fuel production economics.
Cost & Margins
Assess the cost and margin positions of operating chemical plants according to geography, capacity, time, technology, feedstock, operating rate and integration level.
Chemical Solutions
Chemical Market Data
Over >5,000 price assessments for >75 chemical markets. Our robust and market-tested methodologies for chemicals pricing assessments ensure un-matched transparency of the deep market data we provide every day to enable our customers to make confident decisions effectively while operating in the complex chemicals markets.
Chemical Market Risk
Approximately 40 assessments of forward curves as well as spreads and differentials assessed and quantitively derived forward curves to provide risk management support for key trading hubs.
Chemical Market Insights
Our market insight of over 400+ chemicals covering everything from chemical feedstocks to chemical building blocks, their derivatives, all the way to performance chemicals. Get access to daily pricing, real-time market updates, breaking news, analysis, forecasts, fundamental data, and tools.
Key Price Assessment
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Solutions We Offer
Market Data
Understand the market conditions through the numbers. Wherever your focus is within the energy and commodities markets, our daily Platts price assessments, data, and tools help you act with confidence today, so you're ready to make an impact tomorrow.
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Find Opportunities
Be ready for anything
Trading and investment opportunities are everywhere. But to see them, you need an up-to-date view of the market. We're an independent provider of proprietary price assessments, with data delivered the way you need it so you can act quickly and make more informed decisions in today's physicals and futures markets.
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Essential Benefits
Your go-to source for essential market data for confident business decisions
- Consistent engagement across the market
- Machine and experts for more relatable insights
- Independent and proprietary data
- Methodologies that reflect their markets
- Compliant assessments for total peace of mind
- Transparent and detailed methodologies
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What We Offer
Expert insight
Our experts are incredibly passionate about what they do, and it shows in the quality of the insight we provide you. That's why it's used by key energy players, governments, and financial institutions around the world.
Numbers without nonsense
S&P Global Commodity Insights give you up-to-date prices for the energy and commodities markets to use to your best advantage. The extensive historical data allows you to make your own analysis and determine the trading and investment strategy that’s right for you.
Your data delivered your way
With flexible data delivery options, you can access our content on the platform of your choosing via FTP, API, PEA, Energy Studio: Impact, or Platts Connect.
Market Insights
Stay ahead with, insights and analysis for the commodity markets. Examining global influences on commodity prices. Granular shifts in local supply and demand. Our essential range of tools can help you see it all. Because with effective market analysis, you can cover more ground and get broader, integrated view of the markets.
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Integrated Intelligence
Stay ahead with interconnected intelligence
Energy and commodity markets don't work in isolation. And neither do our analytics. At S&P Global Commodity Insights, we use a data-driven, bottom-up methodology to build an integrated offering.
Our analytics spans real-time, near-term, short- and long-term outlooks. This gives you a complete picture of market movements across the supply chain so you can understand how they interact and confidently navigate to the future. -
Stay Ahead
See what's coming next
We provide and integrated, global perspective, setting us apart from others. Our market solutions, forecast and analytics give you a more complete view of the markets so you can cover more ground and look ahead to see what's coming next for your business.
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What We Offer
Integrated analysis
Detailed coverage across the value chain for every major global commodity so you can get deep understanding of the interconnected nature of complex markets.
Innovative solutions
Dynamic analytical tools, like Platts Connect, and integrated datasets lets you access innovations that will help put you at the forefront of trend analysis.
Cutting-edge technologies
Access continually expanding, unique and advanced data collected from satellites so you can keep pace with the evolving commodity landscape.
Local expertise on a global scale
Our team of analysts are located around the globe assuring they are well-connected to regional markets and market participants. And you can benefit from this world of insight.
Your data delivered your way
With flexible data delivery options, you can access our content on the platform of your choosing via FTP, API, PEA, Energy Studio: Impact, or Platts Connect.
Risk Market Data
We provide market-based forward curves to help manage exposure to energy and commodity price volatility. If there's one thing you can be certain of, it's market uncertainty. S&P Global Commodity Insights Risk Solutions give you an independent, verifiable source of data to help you manage risk across your business.
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Evaluate Risk
Convert risk into opportunity
The markets may feel uncertain, but with that uncertainty comes opportunity. With our Essential Intelligence, you can confidently assess market values of assets and liabilities, protect from overexposure, and better align risk tolerance with your business strategy.
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What We Offer
An independent source
Editorially observed and assessed Platts Forward Curves (PFC) that are produced by global teams of correspondents dedicated to reporting on the energy market.
Stay ahead of the curve
Get a clearer view of illiquid markets with our quantitatively derived forward curves. They combine the market knowledge and expertise of our SPGCI editorial team with quantitative techniques to give you sight of changing market dynamics.
Your data delivered your way
With flexible data delivery options, you can access our content on the platform of your choosing via FTP, API, PEA, Energy Studio: Impact, or Platts Connect.
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Essential Benefits
Daily workflows are made easier
- Validate internally derived curves
- Mark-to-market your portfolio to determine profit and loss.
- Calculate key risk metrics such as Value-at-Risk.
- Report the fair value of financial instruments.
- Manage counterparty credit exposure and collateral requirements.
