Asphalt Weekly Monitor
28 Aug 2015
- East Coast retail asphalt ranges slip in many areas, mixed in others – flux holds steady.
- East Coast wholesale asphalt prices decline, while flux prices are unchanged.
- Midwest retail markets report lower prices in a number of states, demand remains strong.
- BP restarts crude unit. Midwest wholesale prices go lower–flux prices steady for August.
- Gulf Coast retail and wholesale asphalt and flux prices remains unchanged for the week.
- Rockies retail prices were mostly steady, but assessments ease in Nevada.
- Rocky Mountain wholesale prices hold steady for remaining August supply.
- West Coast asphalt prices unchanged, with supply still tight in California. Wild fires limit work in some areas of the West.
- Western Canada retail assessments are mostly unchanged. Saskatchewan held a tender.
- Quebec MTQ held a tender. Quebec and Toronto selling prices assessed lower.
- Oil prices hits lows, reverses trend rising almost $5–October WTI closes at $45.22/bbl.
- October Brent ends the week at $50.05 a bbl, up $4.59 a bbl.
- Western Canada’s WCS crude heads higher, to over $29 a bbl FOB Alberta for October.
