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Chemical Conversations: Crude Tall Oil and Biofuels Markets

Biofuels expert Giulia Squadrin talks to pine chemicals expert Leonardo Siqueira about the crude tall oil (CTO) and biofuels markets, including: 

• Market fundamentals for biofuels and the impact on demand for HVO feedstocks 
• CTO demand in the year ahead 
• Legislation impacts on CTO usage into biofuels 

Asphalt Story: Asian and Middle Eastern Markets Impacts from Russian crude, fluctuating prices, demand shifts, and other market disruptors

Listen in as Argus experts provide a deep dive into the asphalt markets in the Middle East and Asia-Pacific. They will provide a current state of the market and a view into the long-term outlook.

Learn more about the Argus Asphalt Annual: Your annual forecast update on the latest developments in the asphalt market, including production, trade flow and consumption data.

Listen to the other two episodes in our asphalt series, Asphalt Story: Americas Market and Asphalt Story: European and African Markets

Metal Movers: Niobium’s potential with WA1

Join Sian Morris, Senior Reporter, as she quizzes Gustavo Macedo on the importance of niobium in the energy transition as well as WA1 Resources’ project in Western Australia. The podcast covers challenges and opportunities for the industry, the applications of niobium in steel, batteries and MRI machines, and the classification of niobium as a critical mineral.

Download a sample of Argus Non-Ferrous or request a trial for the latest niobium and critical mineral prices, including indexation-standard assessments from across minor metals, rare earths, ferro-alloys, base metals and non-ferrous scrap.

Driving Discussions Europe: The new European Diesel flows looking to meet winter specs

In this new episode, Benedict George, deputy editor, joins Alfonso Berrocal, business development manager, to discuss the diesel spec changes from summer to winter and how they might affect diesel producers. Additionally, the talk about trade flows, demand, and supply in Europe.

Falando de Mercado: O desafio logístico para exportar sebo bovino

Falando de Mercado: O desafio logístico para exportar sebo bovino

 

O mercado de sebo bovino para exportação está crescendo de forma acelerada no Brasil, impulsionado principalmente pela demanda dos Estados Unidos. De janeiro a setembro de 2023, os embarques totalizaram 125.000 toneladas, o que representa um salto de 54pc em relação ao volume exportado em todo o ano passado. Os principais produtores de biocombustíveis avançados no exterior querem fechar contratos de longo prazo com parceiros no Brasil e buscam entender a dinâmica local deste mercado.

O chefe adjunto de redação da Argus no Brasil, Conrado Mazzoni, e o repórter sênior da publicação Argus Brasil Combustíveis, Alexandre Melo, conversam sobre os acontecimentos mais recentes dos mercados de sebo bovino no Brasil e nos Estados Unidos, além do desafio logístico para fornecedores brasileiros driblarem gargalos nos portos que já impactam os preços do insumo no mercado doméstico.

 

 

 

 

 

Repsol ramping up SAF production in Spain

Every week, we can find a SAF supply or an offtake agreement between an airline and a producer or supplier in the news. This collaboration between airlines and producers is needed to invest in the production and decarbonization of the air transport industry. However, other factors like feedstock availability, logistics, regulation, or incentivisation play an important role in how fast decarbonization occurs.

 

To discuss these topics, we have Repsol, a global multi-energy provider working to drive the evolution towards a low-emissions energy model and has several renewable fuels and SAF projects in Spain.

Fertilizer Matters: A History of Fertilizers, Oct 2023

Hear Argus’ intriguing review of the history of the fertilizer industry, from early civilization through to the late 1800s. Learn more about the pivotal developments in this period as Mike Nash, Senior Editor and Maria Mosquera, Editor of Argus Sulphur walk you through a pivotal period in the story of fertilizers in the fourth episode of the Fertilizer Matters podcast series.

 

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• Get supporting slides covering Chinchas Island’s guano 1840-1860 and the exploitation of nitrates in the Atacama desert in the 1870s: Download here

 

Access the History of Fertilizers written series in our Fertilizer Focus Magazine

• Free access to our magazine and the series: Click here to get access

Key topics covered in the podcast:

• The origins: Use of organic fertilizers by ancient civilizations (particularly the Romans and the Chinese)
• Scaling up in the 1800s: The story of the Chincha Islands, Peru - and guano
• The tragic history of work gangs and slave labour to mine guano
• Atacama Desert, Chile - 1870s: Huge deposits of naturally occurring nitrates discovered
• The application of these deposits for fertilizer application, fireworks and explosives

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• Free sign up: Fertilizer Focus Magazine
• Other complimentary fertilizer content
• Fertilizer Matters podcast series

Falando de Mercado: Reajustes da gasolina afetam consumo na bomba

As vendas de etanol estão disparando, enquanto o consumo de gasolina recua, em uma dinâmica que marca uma mudança no mercado de combustíveis automotivos, na esteira dos reajustes de preços aplicados pela Petrobras em suas refinarias. A produção de gasolina cresce, com o excedente sendo exportado, além de suprir o mercado interno.

O editor da publicação Argus Brasil Combustíveis, Amance Boutin, e o chefe adjunto de redação da Argus no Brasil, Conrado Mazzoni, conversam sobre os combustíveis automotivos, levando em conta a disputa entre gasolina e etanol no cenário atual do setor sucroalcooleiro.

 

Weight of Freight: VLGC freight is steering into a volatile winter

This episode explores the drivers behind the ongoing volatility in VLGC freight, where recent moves in rates could be mistaken for an echocardiogram. How will Panama canal delays and LPG fleet growth shape the costs of shipping LPG in the winter season and beyond? Featuring Argus’ Freight Reporter Yohanna Pinheiro and Global Head of Freight, Alex Younevitch

Driving Discussions: RIN and Yang

In this latest episode, Argus' RINS/biofuels reporter, Matthew Cope, joins Argus’ blendstocks reporter, Jason Metko, to discuss the D4 and D6 markets moving conversely to D3.