Tampa: Phosphate producers and their sulfur suppliers reached an agreement last week on new prices for the second quarter for molten sulfur delivered to Tampa. The new price was up $8/lt higher than for the first quarter, moving from $172/lt to $180/lt. The new price will be retroactive to April 1.
Devco International received a $78.5 million contract to install a sulfur purification system in northern Iraq. The company said it will be able to process 500,000 mt/y, and that could be expanded to 1 million mt/y.
Refinery capacity operating rates increased 0.1 percent last week, from 84.6 percent the previous week to 84.7 percent, according to the U.S. DOE.
No new issues were found last week with either transportation or supply, as supply and demand remained in balance.
The ADNOC sulfur price was posted at $200/mt FOB for the month of April.