Crude oil and Surfactants

Crude oil is a raw material for surfactants; their prices have moved together.

Crude oil (energy) and Surfactants (chemical): 2 relationships.

How they are linked

1. Feedstock

Physical flow · Direct · Crude oil → Surfactants

Surfactants is made from crude oil: it is one of the raw materials its production routes start from.

2. Price link: ultimate feedstock

Cost and price · Moderate · Both ways

Oil drives the costs of linear alkylbenzene, ethylene oxide and petrochemical alcohols. Monthly moves correlate at 0.00 but yearly moves at 0.46, and oil leads by about 2 months, showing pass-through on a slower contract cycle.

• -0.00 monthly change correlation
• 0.46 12-month change correlation
• 0.05 fitted elasticity

Built from the site data on production routes, energy flows, industry value chains, input-output tables and prices.