North Asia petrochemical makers eye China demand recovery to help resuscitate margins

China’s petrochemical sector is expected to strain under operating losses, at least through the third quarter, though propane dehydrogenation plants’ negative margins since fourth-quarter 2021, are easing as import costs of propane feedstock have fallen by a quarter from the peaks in March, traders said. Other North Asian naphtha cracker operators, which have also been reeling under poor olefin margins,…