​Agenda
There was an increase in investments into building new aromatics capacity especially paraxylene and thereby benzene as by product prior to the recent plunge in global oil prices leading into 2015. With OPEC allowing the market to find the new normal for oil prices and the slower economic growth of China curtailing petrochemical demand, how does the future aromatics market look under the current scenario of evolving feedstock changes? Are the producers and consumers of aromatic intermediates geared for it? This paper takes a hard look both at the current market as well as its fundamentals if any such change will be interim or more permanent in nature.

Highlights of the paper

• Evolving feedstock in Asia and rest of the world and its impact of Aromatics
• Supply and demand fundamentals driving aromatics market
• Trade flows of key aromatics benzene and paraxylene in recent past and near future
• Impact of price and margins on Aromatic operations under current crude scenario

Speaker Profile
Sashi is a chemical engineering professional with over 4 years of extensive experience in the petrochemical & refinery industry specializing in the aromatics value chain. Besides sound understanding of operations of aromatics plants, he oversees the market fundamentals of primary aromatic intermediates like Benzene, Toluene and Xylenes and their derivatives.