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NGL Service product overview
NGL Service product overview

Overview of NGL Service

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Written by Steven Kafantaris
Updated over 10 months ago

What is the NGL Service?


Our NGL Service is an essential resource that provides the most granular analysis and commercial insight into the North American NGL market. Understand the latest trends, identify growth opportunities, and make informed investment decisions with detailed supply forecasts, demand analysis and market perspectives on ethane, propane, butanes and pentane+ integrated with Wood Mackenzie's oil, gas and chemicals views.

What does the NGL Service cover?

Data-rich analysis provides insight in the North American NGL markets with regional and national perspective on ethane, propane, butanes and pentane

  • 7 US/Canada regions and North American cross-border trade flow

  • Short-term outlook. Contains market commentary and monthly forecasts of supply and demand fundamentals over the next 18-24 months for each of the NGL components

  • Long-term outlook. Annual forecast of NGL component supply, demand and price fundamentals
    to 2050

  • Fully built-up long term supply outlook that covers 38 U.S. and 12 Canadian plays and looks at the maximum recoverable and minimum recoverable
    NGL supply scenarios

  • Infrastructure database. Breakout of NGL infrastructure including gas plants, pipelines, fractionators, and export terminals

  • Data: Data for each region presented in easy to navigate excel workbooks

What are the deliverables of the NGL Service?

  • Semi-Annual Long-term outlook forecast horizon to 2050

    • Market analysis and commentary for both the US & Canada

    • Forecasts for NGL Purity product (Ethane, Propane, Butane(s) and pentane+) supply (Gas Plant & Refinery) and demand for the US & Canada​

    • Forecast of imports and exports, by component to 2050

    • NGL purity product price forecast for Mont Belvieu, Conway, and Edmonton.

    • Fully integrated with the North American Gas service as well as the Global Olefins services

  • Monthly US and Canada Short-term outlook​. Forecast horizon: 18-24 Months

    • Non-OPEC supply at country level for all major producers​

    • OPEC crude oil production outlook by country and key assumptions around OPEC strategy​

    • Understand changes to supply view from month-to-month and the impact of above ground events​

    • Latest global and country level production statistics and news flow incorporated each month​​

    • US onshore lower 48 data includes monthly production and rig forecast by key play

  • NGL Infrastructure Database-updated monthly

    • Contains capacity information on 1,000+ gas processing plants, 150+ NGL Fractionators, 65+ NGL Pipelines, and 35+ Export terminals in the U.S.

    • Contains capacity and feed information on 10+ U.S. Isomerization and /or dehydrogenation plants feeding propane or butane.

  • NGL Supply Tool

    • NGL supply, by component, from 38 US and 12 Canadian plays.

    • 2 NGL supply scenarios – Max ethane recovery and Min ethane recovery

    • Data is presented in standard graphical format or mapped by basin and is downloadable to excel

  • Topical Insights

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