INTER PIPELINE

Heartland PDH and PP project in Canada gains traction / Take-or-pay deals with buyers / Most of output earmarked for US / “Attractive profit margins”

WILLIAMS

Canadian natural gas assets and proposed PDH facility sold to competitor Inter Pipeline

POLYMER PRICES

North America July 2014: PE and PS up / PP bottoms out / Engineering plastics show no significant change

PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS

Work on US Gulf Coast crackers and PE plants gears up / ChevronPhillips and ExxonMobil lead the way / Some 30% of expanded US commodity plastics output to be exported by 2020

WILLIAMS

Olefin production scheduled to resume in April 2014 / Expansion of capacity coinciding with repairs

POLYMER PRICES

North America June 2013: Polyolefins point slightly upward / PC and PS weak but stable / Engineering thermoplastics still sluggish / Little momentum in the market

WILLIAMS

Explosion at US Geismar cracker / Two fatalities and several injuries / Force majeure likely / Downstream reporting little impact

WILLIAMS

Contract for Canada propylene plant awarded to Fluor

SASOL

South African group plans new mega-cracker in the US / Attracted to shale gas light feed

WILLIAMS

Plans for new propylene plant in Canada / Dehydrogenation of propane yielded from oil extraction

WILLIAMS

Expansion of US cracker / Latest player to use shale gas as feedstock