Storage terminals

Optimise performance, identify opportunities and make well-informed investment decisions across your asset portfolio

Overview Commodities we cover Customer testimonial How we help the global storage terminal industry The Argus advantage

Overview

Storage terminals play a vital role in the energy and commodities supply chain, ensuring that markets find their balance in the most price efficient way.

Unprecedented levels of change are currently taking place throughout these markets, created by short-term supply and demand volatility, geo-political disruptions and longer-term shifts as a result of the energy transition. The impact on the storage industry is significant.

This backdrop of change presents the ever-increasing challenge of optimising the performance of existing assets, while building investment strategies for sustainable future growth.

We help storage companies worldwide navigate these challenging times by providing trusted, independent data, analysis, and expertise. Our wide range of integrated solutions enable you to identify risks and opportunities faster, so you can make informed business decisions with confidence.

Commodities we cover

To unearth the true insights needed to make confident decisions, you need access to data, price assessments and analytical tools on the commodity markets that underpin the global storage terminal industry. Explore our coverage most relevant to you:

Biofuels and feedstocks

Market-leading prices, analysis and news for biodiesel, renewable diesel, sustainable aviation fuel, ethanol and all feedstock markets.

Ammonia

Market moving insight on clean and conventional ammonia – delivering robust price assessments, actionable commentary, powerful data, vital analysis and outlooks.

Hydrogen

Insight into new projects, transportation and storage, the latest technological developments and policy news on hydrogen from across the globe.

Chemicals

In-depth data and analysis on the global chemical markets, to help you to understand the industry, from the wellhead to end product.

Fertilizers

Our price reports, near-term outlooks and long-term analysis offer the most comprehensive market intelligence on the global fertilizer industry.

Natural gas

Optimise decisions for global natural gas markets with trusted price assessments and unparalleled market intelligence.

Crude oil

As the leading price benchmark provider for global crude oil, Argus brings transparency to naturally opaque markets to enable trade efficiency.

LPG/NGLs

Market-leading price assessments, news, analysis, fundamentals data and price forecasting for the global LPG and NGL markets.

Customer testimonial

Stolthaven Terminal

As a global player in the storage of liquids and chemicals industry, staying ahead in a constantly evolving market is imperative for us. Whether it’s petrochemicals, oil, renewables, future energy, etc., Argus’s market coverage and analysis have enabled us to identify trends, understand market dynamics, and anticipate future changes. In addition, the outlook from Argus Consulting Services has helped support the company to make informed business decisions such as the expansion of our US facilities.

How we help the global storage terminal industry

Our deep market coverage and forward-looking analysis enables you to identify trends, understand market dynamics and anticipate future changes. Learn how we support the global storage terminal industry and read customer use case examples.

Optimise (short term)

How can you optimise the performance of existing terminal assets?

Your challenges

What are the external market drivers impacting utilisation rates and lease fees?
Which markets/ customers should we be targeting for more profitable relationships?
How can we benefit from value-based pricing models?

Our solutions

Our forward curves, price projections and market intelligence on market structures:

Backwardation/Contango
Price fluctuation data and news
Supply Chain Disruptions
We keep you up to date with Geographical Arbitrage price data

Customer use case

A client with a significant crude storage asset, required support in negotiations with a client, a major trading firm, to introduce a dynamic pricing element to its storage rates.

We were able to empower constructive negotiations by providing key insights focusing on:

The storage market, including a comparison of storage rates across regions and the interaction between a sites attractiveness and what a customer will pay.
An overview of crude pricing between regions, defining contango and backwardation and providing a price forecast to 2030.
An analysis of how the crude and storage markets affect each other, including how futures markets and storage levels and rates interact.
Analysis to support the client’s interaction, including the justification for dynamic pricing, defining contango conditions, calculating the breakeven cost and the impact of setting different levels of price ceiling.

Strategies (medium term)

Where are the risks and opportunities? How should you be investing to support the future market?

Your challenges

What does the future of the markets look like?
How will supply balance local and global demand?
What are the future structural trade flows?
What will that mean for existing assets and prospective investments?

Our solutions

Detailed analysis and forecasting on the traditional fuels and commodities you usually store:

Supply / Demand Balance Projections
Trade Flow Forecasts
Industrial Cluster Operating Rates
Captive Terminal Project Viability

Customer use case

A key global player in the independent storage market needed to better understand the potential for exports from its coal terminal/handling facilities in the US, so it could develop medium-term operational plans and investment strategy.

We used our deep international coal market expertise and analytics to support the strategic decision-making around the asset providing:

A comprehensive future outlook for the global coal market.
A view on how demand for US coal was expected to change.
An assessment of the comparative economics for US production basins relative to other sources of exports.

The energy transition and decarbonising your operations (long term)

How and when will the energy transition impact global storage markets and how can you decarbonise your operations?

Your challenges

What are the market dynamics in energy transition commodities?
What risks does that create for our existing asset base?
What are the current and future options available to us?
How do we best assess these options to form an economically viable strategy?

Our solutions

Price and market analysis, so you know how much you should be paying for:

Renewable gas and power
Biofuels: veg oils, biodiesel, renewable diesel, sustainable aviation fuel (SAF)
Bio-LPG
Hydrogen
Bio-methanol
Hydrogen and ammonia

Customer use case

An independent operator of tank terminals for oil, gases and chemicals globally sought independent market data, and analysis on selected biofuels to support its internal market intelligence function. The objective was to link the high-level supply and demand outlook for these products to a detailed view of trade flows within ARA and how trade flows and storage requirements may evolve in the future to support its mid-term strategy and related investment analysis.

Our Consulting Services team provided the client with analysis for bio-feedstocks, biodiesel, renewable diesel, SAF and cellulosic ethanol, including:

Overview of the global fundamentals and major changes in the market.
Supply-demand balances for western Europe and key countries.
Trade flow analysis for key countries.
Overview of terminals, estimated throughput by terminal and mode of transportation in ARA.
Storage market outlook in ARA and key changes in infrastructure and trade flows.
Opportunity analysis and product attractiveness for strategy definition.

The Argus advantage

Our people

Our dedicated team of industry professionals are close to local markets, so you benefit not only from precise pricing data, but the breadth of market intelligence at their fingertips. Data alone - no matter how accurate - is not sufficient.

Methodologies

The unique market insights that out clients benefit from are founded upon proven methods. Our methodologies for price discovery are transparent and firmly based on rigorous market-appropriate processes.

Heritage

For over 50 years, clients have benefited from the precise market intelligence delivered by Argus experts working collaboratively across the global commodity markets.

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