Platts Market Data - Petrochemicals

**Overview**

Platts Market Data – Petrochemicals gives you the actionable numbers and transparency you need to spot opportunities and make decisions fast. Petrochemicals Market Data provides access to the full breadth and depth of Platts petrochemicals markets data, including benchmarks, key assessments, and contract price assessments. Our teams of specialists use their knowledge and expertise to connect with petrochemicals market participants around the world to provide you with a greater sense of market activity — essential when the smallest change can have the greatest impact.

Platts Market Data — Petrochemicals can help you reduce market risk when making important trading decisions, evaluating positions and analyzing data. Platts Market Data - Petrochemicals can give you a more connected view of the influences on the price of petrochemicals through access to the industry's integrated data sets across commodities and regions.

With Platts Market Data — Petrochemicals, you’ll get the latest price assessments, allowing you to react to market changes faster than ever.

-Trade at price levels that are in sync with other market participants by having the latest global price assessments always to hand
-Access to Platts end-of-day assessments, third party data, and a rolling 45-day historical database
-Select from hundreds of categories of assessments containing thousands of prices
-Choice of format and delivery for easy integration into back-office and analytical databases
-Develop an inherently strong pricing and business strategy by referencing daily and historical spot and contract price assessments
-Write contracts and negotiate transactions with confidence by understanding price drivers and fluctuations

Coverage includes:

-Aromatics & Blendstocks, including benchmark Paraxylene, Benzene and MTBE assessments
-Olefins
-Polymers
-Solvents
-Intermediates, including benchmark Methanol assessments

**Use cases**

- Asset Valuation - Evaluate ROI for Energy projects and assets
- Quantitative Analysis - Leverage SPGCI data to design and implement complex and insightful models to support energy and commodities trading
- ESG Investment Analysis - Combine SPGCI data with project data-sets into models for visibility, optimizations, and collaboration
- Risk Analysis - Utilize SPGCI's independent, verifiable Risk data to support all risk management functions including validation of internal valuations and better align risk tolerance with business strategy
- Fundamental Analysis - Connect SPGCI pricing data with financial and operations data, and sensing technology to optimize decision-making on spending, productivity and cycle time
- Supply Chain - Integrate SPGCI data to optimize pipeline network management and commercial processes while enabling more effective predictive operations

**Product details**

Sample Tables:
A ) PRICEDATA
B ) REF_DATA_MARKETDATA

Sample Fields:
A ) PRICEDATA
- SYMBOL
- MDC
- DESCRIPTION
- BATE
- ASSESSDATE
- UOM
- CURRENCY

B ) REF_DATA_MARKETDATA
- COMMODITY
- DELIVERY_REGION
- DESCRIPTION

View Descriptions:

- PRICEDATA - Get the latest and historical assessments by Symbol
- CORRECTIONS - Get all corrections to the assessments by Symbol
- REF_DATA_MARKETDATA - Get additional reference data for Symbols
- MARKETDATA_DICTIONARY - Contains descriptions and examples of each of the columns in the above views for a better understanding of the dataset