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They aren't household names but petrochemicals are everywhere -- and they have a big impact on businesses, markets, and consumers. For manufacturers, petrochemicals are a critical component whose cost and availability can have a huge impact on costs and earnings. For consumers, petrochemicals are as ubiquitous as plastic, and they help drive prices and inflation. Take a look at this ill-understood part of the energy and chemical markets in this installment of OPIS Energy Insights.

Presenters
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Denton Cinquegrana
Chief Oil Analyst, OPIS, A Dow Jones Company
Throughout his 20+ years with OPIS, Denton has covered nearly all energy markets for which OPIS provides price discovery. Denton’s expertise lies in futures, spot, rack and retail markets as well as the logistics along the entire supply chain. Before being named Chief Oil Analyst, he was Executive Editor for U.S. Refined Oil Products, overseeing day-to-day market operations. As Markets Editor prior to that, his primary focus was on the U.S. West Coast where OPIS holds the pricing benchmark for gasoline, diesel and jet fuel.

Denton is often interviewed by major media outlets for his deep analysis and understanding of underlying fundamentals as well as technical analysis of price moves in the U.S. spot and futures markets. He's appeared on CNN, CNBC, MSNBC and Fox Business as well as network evening news programs, to name a few. Denton also provides local analysis to various radio stations nationwide and in leading print publications. Denton frequently speaks at industry conferences, providing attendees with unique insight on how to buy and sell fuel more profitably.

Denton graduated from Rutgers University with a degree in journalism and mass media. He was also a Rutgers football letterwinner.
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Kathy Hall
Executive Director of Global Petrochemical Products, OPIS, A Dow Jones Company
Kathy Hall is OPIS’ Executive Director of Global Petrochemical Products, leading its PetroChem Wire brand. Kathy was the founder of PetroChem Wire, a daily news and pricing service dedicated to the US petrochemical and plastics markets that was acquired by OPIS in 2018.

The OPIS PetroChem Wire price benchmarks are widely used by the petrochemical and plastics industries as a reference in supply contracts and spot market transactions and are the underlying instruments for certain futures contracts that trade on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) and the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE).

Kathy began writing about commodity petrochemical markets more than 25 years ago and is a keen observer of the industry’s history and development.
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