Chemical Maket : Benzene Asian Benzene: Falls $4/mt on week as US Feb contract settles



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Benzene was surveyed down $4/mt week on week at $731/mt FOB Korea Satursday as announcements for February-appearance cargoes were closed (ChemicalMaket). The exchange window has opened between North Asia and the US, where costs have risen quite since the start of the month, bolstered by more grounded European valuing as tight residential inventory. Walk DDP USG was heard exchanged at 263 pennies/lady Thursday, or $786.37/mt, leaving a $59.37/mt spread to Feburary FOB Korea benzene. Benzene accessibility in the US has been obliged by a decrease in imports from South Korea, with under 110,000 mt stacking in November and December and just shy of 7,000 mt stacking during the initial 10 days of January, down from a little more than 118,000 mt in September. Chemical Maket members kept on taking note of the tight inventory and said the higher benzene costs were loaning backing to toluene change units. STDP edges have improved and sources said one US maker as of late restarted its STDP unit that had been down for a while. Maket members foreseen that benzene costs would stay sound yet could chill following the settlement of the US February benzene contract. Arranged upkeep by a significant US styrene maker over January-February was additionally expected to scratch request, sources said. Supply was required to increment in the close to term, with supply from new treatment facilities in Southeast Asia heard balancing out, which was relied upon to contribute an expected 25,000-33,000 mt of H2 January and February-appearance benzene. Request from the downstream styrene showcase in Asia was required to blur from late February because of planned upkeep, despite the fact that this is relied upon to be counterbalanced by turnarounds upstream over a comparative time period. 

Asian benzene was surveyed up $5/mt day on day at $731/mt FOB Korea Satursday. The marker takes the normal of the third, fourth and fifth half-month laycans; H2 February, H1 March and H2 March. There were no straightforward offers or offers during the Chemical Maket on Close appraisal process. The H2 February laycan was evaluated at $727/mt, at the pegged level, and H2 February/March at short $6/mt, underneath an offer prior seen at less $5/mt. The H1 and H2 March laycans were each evaluated at $733/mt, at the pegged level, or more an offer last observed at $731/mt FOB Korea. The CFR China marker was surveyed up $2.50/mt on the day at the peg of $742/mt, mulling over household East China import equality levels for February and March. The residential East China marker was evaluated up Yuan 30/mt on the day at Yuan 5,893/mt, likening to $742.34/mt on an import equality premise (Chemical Maket).

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