Asphalt Weekly Monitor
20 Feb 2015
- East Coast retail asphalt prices mostly steady, some prices slip in Florida and Maryland.
- Wholesale asphalt and flux price ranges are unchanged this week.
- Midwest wholesale markets are steady – some retail locations are lowered.
- Gulf Coast retail assessments were mostly steady, with some lower Texas pricing.
- Gulf Coast area barge asphalt range narrowed. Flux range remains unchanged.
- Rockies wholesale prices are steady–retail assessments ease lower, with racks quiet.
- West Coast prices ease lower in some Pacific Northwest locations. California is unchanged.
- Western Canada retail markets assessed lower in some Prairie Provinces.
- Wholesale asphalt prices were steady for February product in Western Canada.
- Quebec and Ontario asphalt selling prices were unchanged for this week.
- April WTI crude prices fall to $50.81 a bbl—down $2.86 a bbl vs. previous week April close.
- April Western Can. Select (WCS) crude is $13.35 under WTI—about $37.50 FOB Alberta.
- April Brent crude slipped to $60.22 a bbl—but is more than $9 above April WTI.
- Crude Oil Train Derails in West Virginia (See Industry News)
- The United Steelworkers Labor Strike at Refineries Expands (See Industry News)
- Arc Logistics Partners to Acquire Joilet, IL Terminal in Joint Venture (See Industry News)
- West Coast Port Workers Labor Dispute Tentatively Settled (See Industry News)
