In Person Training Courses

This course addresses industry fundamentals, including chemical structures and properties, process technologies, key producers, end-use applications, market sizes, trade patterns and sustainability issues across the key petrochemical value chains.

In collaboration with our Training Partner: American Chemistry Council.

Advances in sustainable chemistry are essential to the environmental and climate challenges we face. The course offers participants an overview of advances in sustainable chemical production and an understanding of how the markets are reacting to these developments.

NEW! Explore the different considerations involved for short-, medium- and long-term price forecasting. Factors like feedstock cost, by-product values, variable & fixed costs elements will be discussed and considered. Concepts like industry cost curves will also be explained. Along with S&P detailed supply-demand methodology, these will all be brought together to assess historical margins, industry operating rates and return on investments – all to forecast petrochemical prices based on grounded fundamentals. This is a hands-on workshop as there will be case studies for attendees to work on for every aspect of the price forecasting process. Bring your laptops with you for this workshop; you will need it!

NEW! The dynamics of the global petrochemical industry are changing rapidly and in profound ways. There is more volatility in the markets and many industry participants are adjusting towards just in time sales and purchase agreements.

NEW! In the world of large volume commodity resins, such as the polyolefins, vinyls, and styrenics, winners and losers are often determined by access (or not) to cheap feedstocks such as in the Middle East and North America. Consequently, producers in other parts of the world are necessarily becoming more and more interested in second and third level derivatives as a means to add value This new course will explore a wide variety of some of these downstream products.