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Competitive Cost & Margin Analytics (CCMA) provides you with cost and margin product positions of 46 chemicals over 6,000 operating chemical plants according to geography, capacity, time, technology, feedstock, operating rate, and integration level.

CCMA will help you:

Evaluate the Long-Term Competitiveness of a Plant

  • Understand the impact of market fluctuations with a 10-year annual forecast
  • Leverage the crude adjuster model to identify exposure and define and alter price forecasts
  • Input estimated plants to grasp a competitive position relative to operating assets

Calculate the Impact of Market Changes on Cost and Margin Performance

  • Shift from annual to monthly curves to understand the impact of short-term change or plant shutdown
  • Alter oil/feedstock/product price to anticipate the effect of a volatile market
  • Compare multiple periods to understand the longevity of a market change and assess the impact of capacity additions

Inform Purchasing Strategies

  • Understanding your supplier's cost structure and competitiveness is critical to a rigorous procurement strategy
  • Leverage annual forecast curves to assess how the marginal cash cost will adjust over time
  • Understand the cost differential of an integrated vs. non-integrated plant
  • Customize price sets to grasp how your supplier's competitive position could shift

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Refinery Cost & Margin Analytics (RCMA) provides you with cost and margin positions of over 525 global operating refineries at an asset level, with a forecast of their performance.

RCMA will help you with the following:

Refinery Benchmarking

  • Benchmark your refinery performance against the competition
  • Review cost & margin estimates for competing assets
  • Identify fluctuations in competitive positioning resulting from shifts in energy and market conditions

Portfolio Improvement

  • Understand risk and exposure to market volatility, including upcoming regulatory changes
  • Determine the impact of new projects and capacity additions
  • Evaluate the profitability of existing refineries to identify M& targets

Capital Investment Evaluation

  • Calculate CCLP and gross/net margins of new capital investments
  • Understand the market position of a new refinery relative to existing refineries
  • Conduct scenario and sensitivity analysis to validate expected refinery performance

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Chemical Economics Handbook (CEH) is a comprehensive market overview with a five-year outlook of key industry drivers, producers, applications, trade, prices, and supply/demand forecasts. Strategic analysis for over 300 chemical products and multiple value chains.

CEH will help you:

  • Forecast and plan for future demand
  • Understand the impact of competing materials
  • Find and evaluate potential business partners and competitors
  • Evaluate producers
  • Track changing prices and trade movements
  • Analyze the effects of feedstocks, regulations, and other factors on chemical profitability
  • Formulate your procurement strategy

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