Asphalt Weekly Monitor
7 May 2021
- Retail asphalt pricing firms across the East Coast, with flux rack prices also higher.
- East Coast asphalt wholesale pricing flat, with flux barge pricing up this week.
- Midwest wholesale prices remained firm, with the rail range slightly higher this week. Flux prices were strong, with supply limited.
- Selling range in some retail markets are adjusted higher in some locations this week.
- Gulf Coast retail asphalt and flux prices were higher across the region this week.
- The wholesale asphalt price band on the Gulf Coast is flat, with flux barges increasing.
- Rocky Mountain rack selling price assessments climbed higher in some spots.
- Rockies wholesale prices are modestly higher for the start of May.
- Some Pacific Northwest locations had higher pricing. California markets were flat.
- In western Canada, retail markets were flat, but wholesale prices went up this week.
- In eastern Canada, both Quebec and Ontario market prices were up this week.
- Oil prices were up modestly this week, except for WCS crude.
- A cyberattack led to the shutdown of the Colonial Pipeline. (See Industry News)
- Holly Frontier acquired the Puget Sound Refinery. (See Industry News)
