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• Integer Focus Report: The Outlook for Potash

  This NEW Study on the Potash Market analyses a market supply/demand balance forecast which will help you understand whether potash industry prices and margins are likely...

• Nitrogen Cost and Profit Margin Service

  NEW! The first consistent and accurate service analysing the global nitrogen cost curve, and the affects that variables like energy prices have on nitrogen pricing at...

• Integer Focus Report: The Outlook for UAN

  The Outlook for UAN analyses tradeflows and the competitive position of the leading producers and new entrants. It explores how this market is likely to develop...

• Russian & Ukrainian Nitrogen Report

  This updated report ‘Energy, Costs and Trade’ is the most detailed study of the Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian nitrogen fertilizer producers to date.

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• Ukrainian nitrogen producers face US$9.6/MMBtu gas: short term upwards pressure on nitrogen markets likely

  Posted on 25 August 2010 by Sebastien Chu Ti

  In August 2010 Ukraine announced another series of price increases for industrial gas users from US$6.5/MMBtu to US$9.6/MMBtu delivered ex-VAT. Despite the sizeable discount secured earlier in May on the DAF price from Russia bringing it down from US$350/1000m3 to US$250/1000m3 (US$10.9/MMBtu to US$7.76/MMBtu) the weakening finances of the national gas distributor Naftogaz required removal of subsidies on distribution of imported gas. At the same time the new government also made the decision to return 12 bcm of gas to the energy trading company RosUkrEnergo, from whom the Tymoshenko government seized all gas in storage belonging to the company at the start of 2009. It is not clear if Naftogaz will be able to comply with the latter in practice.

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• Potashcorp latest acquisition target for BHP

  Posted on 25 August 2010 by Sebastien Chu Ti

  The pace of mergers and acquisitions is picking up again, and one of the top five listed fertilizer companies Potashcorp has found itself the target of the latest acquisition proposal. Acquisitions make sense for BHP, which has been keen to gain potash capacity, given the long lead times for greenfield mines and relative lack of unexploited reserves. There have

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• Delegates Predict World Cup Winner

  Posted on 15 July 2010 by Anna Cairncross

  At the last IFA conference held in Paris, Integer ran a competition where delegates were invited as part of a prize draw, to predict the winner of the World Cup.  Brazil gained the highest number of votes with Spain second.

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• Potash producers stage recovery in Q1 2010, mixed results for nitrogen producers

  Posted on 9 July 2010 by Sebastien Chu Ti

  In Q1 2010 eight out of the top ten companies by operating profit and operating profit margin were potash producers and potash absolute operating profit (counting potash-only

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