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Downstream margins recover on falling hydrogenated benzene prices

Shandong (JLC), September 19, 2023—China hydrogenated benzene prices declined, helping downstream margin recovery.

09-19-2023 17:56:36

China ammonium sulfate exports fall on month

Shandong (JLC), March 21, 2023—China’s ammonium sulfate exports declined in 2023, amid weak foreign demand.

03-21-2023 17:48:39

China's crude benzene prices fall in Jul, to extend the downtrend in Aug

Shandong (JLC), August 9, 2022--China's crude benzene prices fell in July, and will extend the downtrend in August.

08-09-2022 16:13:00

China's hydrogenated benzene run rate rise, but profit falls

Shandong (JLC), July 21, 2022--In the first half of 2022 (H1 2022), the profitability of hydrogenated benzene producers weakened compared with the first half of 2021, though the whole hydrogenated ben

07-21-2022 18:18:50

China MA prices keep falling in Jul on supply-demand imbalance

Shandong (JLC), July 21, 2022--In July, China maleic anhydride (MA) prices stayed in the long-term downtrend amid supply-demand imbalance.

07-21-2022 17:59:13

China’s MA prices fall after soaring in H1 2022, to go range-bound in H2 2022

Shandong (JLC), June 30, 2022--China's maleic anhydride prices (MA) fell after surging in the first half of 2022.

06-30-2022 17:55:31

Coke producers’ inventory had fallen to the lowest level in 2017

China coke price nearly surged to the highest level of 2016, due to supply shortage of coke producers. Coke plants inventory recorded the lowest level in 2017, and coke market would suffer supply shortage in the short run. As of September 11th, the independent coking plants inventory

09-19-2017 08:31:38

The falling supply to support coke price with environmental policies are executed

“The 13th Five Year Plan” Eco-environment Protection Plan showed the total coal consumption in Beijing, Tianjing, Hebei, Shandong and Henan will dip around 10% during the period of “the 13th Five Year Plan”.

06-14-2017 10:12:31

Qinhuangdao Port to see coal arrivals with the falling stockpiles

As of June 12th, 2017, coal stocks at Qinhuangdao Port slumped 705,000 mt or 11.7% from 6.01 million mt on May 13th to 5.305 million mt and they will go down in the short run. Reasons are as follows.

06-14-2017 10:00:55

Coal prices may fall to CNY600/mt amid the weak supply-demand in coastal market

In April, affected by railway maintenance and the slack season of coal consumption, port coal kept balanced between inbound and outbound volume and coal inventory remained stable with the dropping anchored vessels.

04-25-2017 14:13:32

Thermal coal demand continues falling with port inventory division

During the period of April 3rd-7th, affected by Daqin railway maintenance, inbound resource volume at ports nudged down. Owing to the bad weather, partial ports around Bohai closed navigation with handling capacity moving with mixed trend and port inventory fluctuated.

04-11-2017 13:48:57

China raw coal output falls 1.7% YoY to 506.782 mln mt over Jan-Feb 2017

China raw coal output read 506.782 million mt, dipping 1.7% YoY and 4.7 percentage points from the same period last year in the first two months of 2017, and the daily output stayed unchanged from a year ago at 8.59 million mt, data showed from the National Bureau of Statistics.

03-23-2017 14:03:56

NEA: Coal's share in energy consumption to fall to 60% in 2017

Under the NEA's guidance on 2017 energy work, China's energy consumption shall be controlled at 4.4 billion tce, with non-fossil fuel's and natural gas' ratio to be lifted to 14.3% and 6.8% respectively and coal's ratio to be cut to about 60%.

12-28-2016 13:57:48

NBS: Share of thermal power generation falls to below 60% in H1

From January to June, China’s thermal power generation accounted for 56.79% of its total, with the proportion declining by 19 percentage points from in the January-May period. Other kinds of power generation all rose from a year ago in the first half year.

07-19-2016 11:40:49

Heavy rainfalls in South China whittle steam coal demand

Recently, heavy rainfalls sweep across South China, and hydropower stations are running at full capacity, reducing coal consumption at major thermal power plants.

07-07-2016 14:15:34

China Shenhua Energy's profit falls, to cut output in 2016

China Shenhua Energy’s net profit fell 56.9 percent in 2015, missing forecasts and dropping for a third straight year due to lower demand in a slowing economy and the country’s efforts to switch to cleaner forms of energy.

03-29-2016 17:32:41

Chinese Jan thermal coal imports fall 25% on year to 5.83 mil mt

China imported 5.83 million mt of thermal coal in January, dropping 25% year on year and falling 22% from December’s eight-month high, according to data released by the General Administration of Customs Wednesday.

02-25-2016 14:01:17

Indonesia's Feb thermal coal reference price falls 1.78% from Jan

The Indonesian Ministry of Energy and Mines set its February International Coal Price Reference for thermal coal, also known as Harga Batubara Acuan, at $81.96/mt FOB, down 1.78% from January.

02-18-2016 13:50:36

19 listed coal companies see 2015 net profits fall by CNY40 bln

A few coal makers are still barely profitable at 2015’s average price of CNY425/mt, but no one can avoid losses given prices stay at the current level of CNY370/mt throughout 2016.

02-15-2016 10:58:12

NBS: coal prices on the fall in late November

According to the National Bureau of Statistics of China (NBS), prices for almost all coal varieties saw a decline in late November, with anthracite and coking coal prices registering the sharpest decline.

12-04-2015 15:39:30

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