Discontinuing the semi-soft met coal assessment: An opportunity to rethink indexation This paper makes the case for re-examining the current range of semi-soft coking coal price references in use and the need to coalesce price formation around the most liquid assessments.
Romania's gas market - caught in regulatory headwinds March 2023. The liberalisation of Romania’s gas market has come under threat recently from government interventions to combat high energy prices. And even before that, tight regulation of the wholesale market had curbed the development of trading activities in Romania.
Diesel: Große Marktveränderungen erfordern neue Preisinstrumente Die Dieselströme nach Europa werden sich spätestens ab Februar 2023 verändern, wenn die EU-Sanktionen gegen russische Kraftstoffe einsetzen. Europas größter Markt, Deutschland, wird angesichts seiner hohen Abhängigkeit von Russland besonders stark vom Diesel-Importverbot betroffen sein.
Asia-Pacific Coking Coal 2H 2022 Analysis Understand the details behind China’s weakening steel demand during the second half of 2022
Argus Insight: Voluntary Carbon Markets How the Voluntary Carbon Market can take net zero from ambition to reality. In January 2023, UK newspaper The Guardian ran an article with the headline “Revealed: more than 90% of rainforest carbon offsets...
Brazilian fertilizer market trends Download our concise and insightful market insight paper, assessing Brazilian fertilizer market trends.
Argus reaches a year of monthly methanol contract price assessments in Europe February 2023. Argus launched an assessment of European monthly methanol contract prices (CP) last year, with the number of producers and consumers using monthly CPs increasing over the past 12 months.
Argus White Paper: Russian base oils target European export markets US and EU sanctions and boycotts on Russian companies and oil products have changed typical global base oil trade flows, with a large volume of Russian supply that typically moved to Europe targeting alternative markets such as Turkey and Latin America instead.
US HRC: Midwest pricing a legacy of the past? February 2023. Most published US hot-rolled coil assessments continue to reflect prices of the past, when the Midwest was the predominant steelmaking region. What happens when this changes?
Growing sustainable aviation fuel markets The global aviation industry is developing a thirst for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). Through self-governance by airlines, government mandates in Europe, incentive programs in the US, global credit offset programs and decarbonization efforts in Asia-Pacific, SAF is quickly becoming a highly sought-after commodity throughout the world.
Argus White Paper: LPG Winter price outlook As the LPG market heads into winter — the key season for demand as the weather gets colder and heating fuel consumption increases — what is the situation for LPG prices? In this white paper, we discuss Argus’ short-term LPG price forecasting methodology and the outlook for prices this winter.
Countries and industry pledges to net zero-Cop 27 November 2022. This year’s energy crisis has changed the landscape dramatically since the Cop 26. For more information please download our white paper Countries and industry pledges to net zero-Cop 27.
Argus White Paper: Path forward for certified gas still unclear November 2022. Natural gas producers are scrambling to find a home for a new wave of output that meets tougher emissions standards and could help secure the industry’s place in a lower-carbon future.
Argus Brent Sour - providing sour crude visibility for Europe November 2022. The disappearance of Russian Urals crude from the European spot market this year has removed a key marker price from the global market, leaving sour crude producers with no easy way of pricing their exports to Europe. The new Argus Brent Sour (ABS) index is designed to provide the market with the transparency it needs.
Urals crude pricing seeing drastic changes November 2022. The Russia-Ukraine conflict has led to rapid change to decades-long crude trading behaviour and pricing norms. In this paper we analyse some of the market impacts and explain how Argus pricing methodology for Urals exports has adapted to reflect the new reality, ahead of the imposition of an EU embargo on Russian crude in early December.
