Asphalt Weekly Monitor
14 Aug 2015
- East Coast retail asphalt ranges move lower in some markets – flux ranges steady.
- East Coast wholesale asphalt prices decline, with flux ranges steady.
- Selling prices adjusted in the upper Midwest, and some Illinois and Indiana locations.
- Midwest wholesale markets are assessed in a firmer range. Flux prices steady.
- Some Gulf Coast retail asphalt prices go lower, with flux retail pricing unmoved.
- Gulf Coast area barge prices for asphalt and flux status quo this week.
- Rockies retail and wholesale prices are status quo.
- West Coast retail prices are unchanged. Wild fires affect paving in some areas.
- Western Canada retail assessments are steady. Wholesale is status quo.
- Quebec and Ontario selling price ranges are assessed flat.
- Oil prices remain weak. September WTI ends at $42.50/bbl, down $1.37.
- October Brent firms slightly, to $49.19 a bbl, up 58 cents for the week.
- Western Canada’s WCS crude falls, ending the week at ~$23-24 a bbl FOB Alberta for September. Prices drop, with BP sour crude unit outage cited as a factor.
- McCall Oil Announces Retirement of President. (See Personnel Announcement)
- Unscheduled BP Crude Unit Shutdown at Whiting, Indiana Refinery. (See Industry News)
