PetChemCalc is the intelligence layer that connects the world’s refineries with their downstream petrochemical operations. Designed for traders, analysts, investors, and data-driven organizations, it provides a holistic, dynamic understanding of how refinery and chemical assets behave — together — under shifting market conditions.
In addition to refinery integrated petrochemical plants, PetChemCalc also includes all standalone ethylene crackers which allows the user to see the ethylene cash cost curve from a global, regional, country or even individual unit basis.
By linking Refinery Calc’s Engine Mode technology with global petrochemical process models, PetChemCalc delivers a single, material balanced, process engineering-based view of hydrocarbon flows from crude feedstock to final petrochemical output — capturing every intermediate trade-off, yield, and margin impact in near real-time.
To redefine how the market interprets integrated energy and chemical systems. PetChemCalc goes beyond static data by dynamically simulating the full conversion chain — from refinery configurations to petrochemical unit performance — and revealing how decisions, disruptions, or market shifts cascade across the global value network.
At its core, PetChemCalc is powered by the same nonlinear optimization engine that drives Refinery Calc — now extended downstream into the chemical domain. This integration allows users to model complete energy–chemical systems, encompassing:
CDU, VDU, FCC, Hydrocracker, Reformer, Isomerization, Alkylation
Steam Crackers (Ethylene), Propylene Splitters, Aromatics Complexes (BTX), Polyethylene (PE), Polypropylene (PP), EO, EG, etc.
Naphtha, LPG, Propane, Butane, Coker naphtha, Straight Run Naphtha, Pyrolysis gasoline
Through global mass and heat balance calculations, PetChemCalc quantifies conversion efficiencies, trade-offs, and marginal economics across every step in the value chain.
Most analytics platforms stop at data aggregation. PetChemCalc is alive — continuously updating as the world’s refining and petrochemical systems evolve.
Our platform incorporates:
This living model connects cause and effect — showing how a cracker outage event in Singapore can ripple through naphtha pricing, shift ethylene margins in Korea, and alter polyethylene economics in the U.S. Gulf Coast.
Using fundamental market research from Oil/Gas Wellhead to International Polyethylene (PE) Markets. Our deep-dive research helps clients leverage both short- and long-term trends to reduce margin risk and improve long term profitability.
Petrochemical, midstream, and derivative asset operations. Capital project progress
Quarterly Fly Over reports with the use of thermal imaging technology
Ethylene/Derivative Market Structure and Fundamentals.
A collection of detailed ESI reports/services (listed below) is provided to educate clients to understand ESI’s view of the market.
This gives traders and analysts the ability to see through the wall between refining and chemicals — modeling not just what happens, but why.
PetChemCalc transforms static reference data into a living, causally connected system of global industrial intelligence.
PetChemCalc transforms static reference data into a living, causally connected system of global industrial intelligence.
Within seconds, PetChemCalc re-optimizes the global refinery–chemical balance to show how market events propagate through the energy–chemicals chain — revealing true exposure, opportunity, and risk.
This continuous benchmarking enables traders, refiners, and investors to spot advantaged assets, underperforming complexes, and emerging bottlenecks ahead of the market.
PetChemCalc unifies refinery, petrochemical, and financial data into one intelligent system—turning complex operations into clear, actionable insight across the value chain.
Static, survey-based, lagged
Refineries and chemicals analyzed separately
Descriptive
Regional or asset-level snapshots
Basic pricing overlays
Dynamic, model-based, live-updating
Full refinery–petchem integration
Predictive + Optimization-driven
Global
Advanced modeling with comprehensive energy flow logic
PetChemCalc doesn’t just describe the market — it simulates the global refining and petrochemical system in motion.
