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Written by Si Liu and Florence Tan
SENGAFARA (Reuters) – Despite a growing trade war between Washington and Beijing, Chinese ethane imports from the United States are scheduled to rise this year as large petrochemical producers who fight volatile profits to the cheapest waves flowing from the gas boom in the United States.
Companies that include Sanjiang Fine Chemical and Wanhua Chemical Group invest more than $ 16 billion to build crackers, upgrade factories, storage expansion, and build very large ethan companies to charge LNG.
The ability of the American export and the lack of carriers are the two factors that hinder the growth in the ethane trade among the largest economists in the world. Almost all Chinese ethania imports come from the United States
Expectations range from three analysts to obtain ethane imports in China in 2025 between 6.3 million and 8.2 million metric tons, which they estimate will reach an increase of 9 % and 34 %. There are no official data available to the public on the ethannia imports.
To meet the high demand for export, American pipeline network products transport energy and institutional products to expand the capacity in their limbs.
“The bottleneck is American exports at the present time,” said Arman Ashraf, head of natural gas fluids in FGE.
China buys approximately half of the American ethan exports, according to the US Energy Information Administration, which believes that net net ethane is emerging from 6 % to 520,000 barrels per day (11.2 million tons) in 2025. China is expected to take most of this increase.
In the competition with China, Thailand plans to buy more American furniture to reduce its trade deficit with the United States, while Siam CEMENT Group is re -configuring its new long cracking in Vietnam to use the cheapest raw materials. Her spokesman Ki Lyn Reuters said that the Tiwi petrosa, the largest importer in the region in the region, is also studying the import of the United States of the United States for its ports.
Wang Yan, an ICIS, an intelligence analyst, said that the increasing demand and the ability to export will lead to a narrow Ethan market from 2026.
Crackers and new ships
Between 2024 and 2026, Chinese companies plan to add at least 7.7 million tons annually (TPY) from ethane treatment and other gas fluids, as the company’s files appear, as they look forward to taking advantage of the cheapest raw materials.
They need to make the switch to improve their returns. Sherrill Liu, an analyst in the consultative energy aspects, said that the crackers in China, which processing ethane can earn between $ 300 -500 dollars per ton of produced ethylene, overcoming the profit margins in factories processing in Nafitha.
