Key Features of the Global NGL Market Service

The Global NGL Market Service, an ideal complement to PIRA's North American Natural Gas and Global Oil retainer services, features three key deliverables:

NGL Monthly Market Outlook

A comprehensive slide show that covers the issues that shape the supply, demand, inventory, pricing, and trade of NGLs worldwide. It is accompanied by Excel files of U.S. NGL prices and balances and European LPG and crude prices. Together, these provide timely data and analysis on relevant upstream, refinery, midstream, and petrochemical developments, along with forward-looking insights into various macroeconomic issues that will affect NGL demand.

Global LPG Weekly Scorecard

This concise report covers the recent fundamentals developments in global LPG, including price issues, international arbitrage, trade flows, petrochemical margins, operating rates, spot and forward feedstock preferences, as well as the divergent regional weather influences.

The NGL Data Portal

A specially designed interface that includes:

• U.S. NGL Balances & Prices
• European Crude & LPG Prices
• World LPG Demand.by Country
• Middle East LPG Exports
• LPG Trade Flows
• World Ethylene Capacity
• U.S. Extraction Margins

What Do Global NGL Clients Receive

The Global NGL Market Service Portal allows quick and easy access to the following deliverables

NGL Monthly Market Outlook

Also emailed directly to NGL clients, a comprehensive slide show that covers the issues that shape the supply, demand, inventory, pricing, and trade of NGLs worldwide. It is accompanied by Excel files of U.S. NGL prices and balances and European LPG and crude prices (see Data Center contents on next page). Together, these three files provide timely data and analysis on relevant upstream, refinery, midstream, and petrochemical developments, along with forward-looking insights into various macroeconomic issues that will affect NGL demand.

Global LPG Weekly Scorecard

This concise report covers the recent fundamentals developments in global LPG, including price issues, international arbitrage, trade flows, petrochemical margins, operating rates, spot and forward feedstock preferences, as well as the divergent regional weather influences. The outlook for U.S. extraction margins is also discussed.

U.S. Weekly Propane Stocks by PADD report

Data and commentary on U.S. and regional propane and propylene inventories. The discussion section puts weekly stock changes into perspective. The data section, in Excel format, provides the weekly stock levels and changes for the most recent three months, corresponding year-ago stock levels and changes, and year-on-year comparisons. Graphs are provided to place national and regional stock data, as well as demand, into historical context.

The Global NGL Data Center

A one-stop-shop that contains all of the important data behind the service’s written analysis. The individual data sets are as follows:

• U.S. NGL Balances & Prices. Updated monthly, an Excel file with separate detailed worksheets covering ethane, propane, butanes, and natural gasoline, actuals and short-term forecasts.
• European Crude & LPG Prices. Monthly actuals and forecasts of Dated Brent and propane and butane in Northwest Europe and the Mediterranean.
• The interactive NGL Price Database. Accessible via PIRA’s Energy Price Portal (where all of PIRA’s prices are queriable), this section contains short-term (monthly) and long-term (annual) forecasts to 2025 on the following regional observations:

• World LPG Demand. Consumption of LPG by region, with historic data going back to 2007 and an outlook through 2012.
• LPG Demand by Country. A world map showing, for leading countries, annual LPG consumption for 2011 and a forecast for 2012.
• Middle East LPG Exports. Actuals and forecasts to end-2012, with individual country detail for Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait, Iran, and Qatar.
• LPG Trade Flows. A slide show, updated monthly, that sheds light on changing trade patterns and market dynamics for key worldwide regions/countries.
• Arbitrage Opportunities. Updated weekly, this slide show exposes arbitrage economics by juxtaposing delivered prices at major market hubs with FOB prices from supply sources.
• World Ethylene Capacity. Excel spreadsheet showing historic and forecast (to 2015) by-country capacity and expansion data.
• Ethylene Capacity Developments. A slide show illustrating the shifting geography of ethylene’s world supply capability, showing capacity growth in the U.S. and the Middle East out to 2016.
• Feedstock Preferences. Updated weekly, a slide show providing current and historical gross ethane margins for a typical U.S. steam cracker. In addition, relative U.S. feedstock pricing is presented.  For Northwest Europe and Japan, a graphical illustration of relative feedstock economics is provided.
• Recent U.S. Developments. A slide show that illustrates the anticipated growth of the U.S. NGL infrastructure, including pipeline and export terminal capacity additions.
• U.S. Extraction Margins. A review of monthly Gulf Coast margins, with history going back to 1998, and an outlook for the next several quarters.
• U.S NGL Fractionation Capacity. An Excel worksheet containing entries on all of the individual plants, with details on ownership, location, capacity. Forecasts to 2014.
• Heating- and Cooling-Degree Day Data. An Excel file showing HDD/CDD data by country and by key city.

Telephone and email access to PIRA’s Global NGL Markets analysts

For clarification questions on reports and quick turnaround research.

More About the Global NGL Service

Since 1999 PIRA has provided data, forecasts, and analysis on NGL markets, primarily in North America. Now, with the launch of the new Global NGL Market Service, the coverage goes beyond a U.S. focus to provide clients with a highly comprehensive, forward-looking assessment of NGL markets around the world.

Here's a grid showing the differences between the new service and its old version:

Fees

The Global NGL Market Service can be purchased on its own or, at a discount, as an add-on for clients to PIRA’s Global Oil Retainer, North American Natural Gas Retainer, or European Natural Gas Retainer services. The extent of the discount depends on the client's current package. For options and fees, please contact your PIRA sales representative.