The North America LPG Report provides vital pricing benchmarks for businesses operating in the LPG sector. From Mont Belvieu, Texas, to Conway, Kansas, the report offers comprehensive spot pricing, news, and analysis for NGL markets across North America. As the official spot benchmark, OPIS pricing is tied to almost every gallon of propane, butane, ethane, and natural gasoline in the U.S. market. OPIS covers U.S. natural gas liquids spot markets on a full-day basis, canvassing an unparalleled source pool to provide reliable pricing. The report also introduces the OPIS Carbon Offset NGL/LPG Index, reflecting spot prices for NGLs combined with carbon credits necessary to offset the fuels’ emissions, helping assess and hedge the cost of offsetting the carbon impact of propane, butane, and ethane.

Key Features and Benefits

• Daily assessments for spot natural gas liquids prices include current month, prompt, and month out timings.
• Daily price assessment for U.S. Gulf Coast FOB LPG for the LPG export cargo resale market.
• Prices tracked for Mont Belvieu, Texas; Conway and Bushton, Kan.; Napoleonville and Geismar/Sorrento, La.; Hattiesburg, Miss.; Los Angeles, Bakersfield, and San Francisco, Calif.; and Sarnia and Edmonton, Canada.
• Daily average and month-to-date average NGL prices help you identify price spreads and arb opportunities among major storage hubs.
• Frac spreads for all products show the profit margin for extracting NGLs from the natural gas stream.
• Comprehensive percentage-of-crude snapshots value U.S. NGLs against WTI or Brent day-to-day or over 20-day periods.
• Our NGL Basket OPIS Mont Belvieu Non-TET assessment gives an accurate price for Y-grade raw mix, allowing you to price the entire slate of NGLs.
• Key international market comparisons show you how U.S. NGLs are competing globally.
• Breaking news coverage reveals trends impacting global LPG supply and demand.

Introducing the OPIS Carbon Offset NGL/LPG Index OPIS Carbon Offset NGL/LPG Index reflects spot prices for NGLs (propane, butane, ethane) combined with carbon credits necessary to offset the fuels’ emissions.

• These indices are the first to combine widely traded NGL and carbon offset benchmarks, providing an avenue for carbon offset pricing risk mitigation to the NGL market.
• With daily pricing and historical data, we provide a clear understanding of the baseline costs to offset carbon footprints associated with propane, butane, and ethane through offset purchases.