VOL. XLI

No. 12

23-March-1998

PETROCHEMICALS

The East Of Suez Naphtha Market

by George Gale

The following is the text of a lecture delivered in Bangkok on 10 March by GeorgeGale, Manager of the Feedstocks and Petrochemicals Consulting Department at Poten andPartners, Inc. regarding the East of Suez naphtha market.

A generation ago, everyone talked about gaps. The fad started when US Cold War generalsagonized through one military budget hearing after another about our missile gap. TheSoviet Union,...