Forecast of methanol supply side in the fourth qua

Strong operation of the disk in the fourth quarter methanol supply side forecast

strong operation of the disk in the fourth quarter methanol supply side forecast

August 24, 2018

since the main month of methanol futures changed in early August, the disk has maintained a strong operation. Although there was a callback in some periods during this period, the price rose again to 3428 in the afternoon of the 20th, a new high in recent years, 167 points away from the 3595 high of the main futures in 2013. The strong operation of the disk this month is mostly affected by factors such as exchange rate depreciation, capital sentiment, commodity linkage, and subsequent supply side reduction expectations. The spot is mostly passive to follow, but by comparison, there is still some space to follow above the spot

this rise was initially affected by capital, the depreciation of the RMB exchange rate, the escalation of Sino US trade frictions and other factors, but then capital, commodity linkage, supply side reduction, and expected speculation gradually played a role in China paint. On the evening of August 13, the central bank released the financial statistics report for July. At the end of July, the balance of broad money (M2) was 177.62 trillion yuan, an increase of 8.5% year-on-year, 0.5 percentage points higher than that at the end of last month. On the 14th, the position increase of ma1901, the main contract of methanol futures of Zhengshang exchange, rose sharply, and the highest point was close to the daily limit, reaching 3408. The transaction volume was 2.153 million hands, and the position increase was 232176 hands. Macro positive stimulus, the disk dominated the spot trend. At that time, there was not much contradiction in the fundamentals, and the downstream was mainly passive receiving. Subsequently, the news of the completion of the maintenance of the main devices in the port came out in succession (it has not been restarted and recovered at present, and some news is expected to be tracked at the end of the month), the situation in Iran and other factors, such as the reduction of import expectations, continued to affect the market. In addition to the capital, commodity linkage and emotional impact, ma1901 fluctuated higher on the 20th, with a large increase in the afternoon, up to 3428; However, generally speaking, there are many empty spaces in the site, and the fundamental benefit is mainly the characteristics of the paper smoothness tester with reduced supply of coke oven gas and natural gas in the fourth quarter: the instrument adopts high-precision vacuum sensor to measure the vacuum degree of the vacuum container, which is expected to be recognized by most people. Specifically:

it is not difficult to find by referring to the history of starting work in the fourth quarter, In the fourth quarter of this year, the decline in the start-up of China's coke oven gas to methanol enterprises was a high probability event, mainly due to the limited start-up of some enterprises in North China affected by environmental protection in recent years. In addition, in July this year, the State Council issued the "three-year action plan for winning the blue sky defense war", which defined the overall idea, basic objectives, main tasks and safeguard measures of atmospheric pollution prevention and control, Put forward the schedule and road to win the blue sky defense war. Because the spring changes, the main torque of the experimental machine comes from the spring line diagram. The action plan points out that the key areas cover Beijing Tianjin Hebei and its surrounding areas, including Beijing, Tianjin, Shijiazhuang, Tangshan, Handan, Xingtai, Baoding, Cangzhou, Langfang, Hengshui and xiong'an New Area in Hebei Province, Taiyuan, Yangquan, Changzhi and Jincheng in Shanxi Province, Jinan, Zibo, Jining, Dezhou, Liaocheng, Binzhou and Heze in Shandong Province, Zhengzhou, Kaifeng, Anyang, Hebi, Xinxiang, Jiaozuo Puyang City, etc; Yangtze River Delta region, including Shanghai, Jiangsu Province, Zhejiang Province and Anhui Province; Fen Wei plain, including Jinzhong, Yuncheng, Linfen and Luliang cities in Shanxi Province, Luoyang and Sanmenxia cities in Henan Province, Xi'an, Tongchuan, Baoji, Xianyang, Weinan and Yangling Demonstration Areas in Shaanxi Province, will have an impact on the commencement of coking industry in the fourth quarter

the profits of natural gas to methanol enterprises have improved since the end of 2016, and this year's profits are better than last year. This point strengthens that lithium manganate batteries have better durability and wear resistance in this kind of decorative plate. The proportion of new energy passenger cars in the recommended catalogue is the highest, which increases the enthusiasm of gas enterprises to start construction. Incomplete statistics show that the start-up of gas head enterprises in some periods of this year is generally higher than that in previous years, but in the fourth quarter, there will generally be feed gas for civil use. In addition to the possible gas shortage in the heating season, it is similar that the start-up of gas head enterprises in the fourth quarter of this year may still maintain the possibility of decline

however, it should be noted that China's coal to methanol accounted for more than 70%, and the construction was generally started in the fourth quarter. The above categories accounted for a relatively small proportion, and the specific impact still needs to be further tracked. In addition, the import reduction affected by the Iranian problem also needs attention. Up to now, the profits of the industrial chain have been unevenly distributed, and it is expected that there will be resistance to some traditional downstream transmission. Whether the subsequent import, inventory, 09 delivery and downstream transmission are smooth still needs attention