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Northwest Europe Naphtha Price — CIF NWE / ARA basis
The latest CIF NWE / ARA basis naphtha assessment is $804.00 per metric ton for 4 September 2026, down $11.25 from the previous daily assessment (3 Sep 2026). Explore the historical price chart and recent daily assessments below.
Latest Northwest Europe Naphtha Price
- Basis
- CIF NWE / ARA basis
- Unit
- USD/mt
- Frequency
- Daily
- CS code
- CS-NWE-NAPH-CIF
What This Indicator Measures
Daily CIF Northwest Europe naphtha cargo assessment (ARA delivery basis) in USD/mt — the European delivered cracker-feedstock value.
Naphtha: A physical price for naphtha, a light distillate used as petrochemical steam-cracker feedstock and gasoline blendstock. Regional series differ by delivery term and unit (USD/bbl in Singapore, USD/mt in Europe and Japan).
What the source does not state for this series
- The source table names this series as “Naphtha” and does not print a fuller specification; none is assumed here.
Specification · product family only
- Open-specification naphtha; paraffin content and density follow the source assessment and are not reproduced here.
Basis: CIF NWE / ARA basis
- CIF NWE / ARA basis: cargo delivered to the Amsterdam–Rotterdam–Antwerp area, as stated in the registry basis.
- CIF (cost, insurance and freight): the price includes ocean freight and insurance to the named destination area; the difference to an FOB value therefore contains freight and insurance, not a trading margin.
- Barge-based ARA/AR/FARAG values refer to inland-waterway barge parcels in the Amsterdam–Rotterdam–Antwerp area (FARAG adds Flushing and Ghent); they are smaller lots than seagoing cargoes and are not the same market as CIF NWE cargoes.
- Northwest Europe (NWE) covers the Channel and North Sea coast from Le Havre to Hamburg; cargo values here are seagoing parcels, not barges.
Unit: USD/mt
- USD/bbl values (Singapore, Arab Gulf, Fujairah) and USD/mt values (Europe, Japan naphtha) cannot be compared without a product-specific density conversion; the site does not convert them.
- Published assessments are a low–high range with a midpoint; charts and monthly statistics use the midpoint only.
Northwest Europe Naphtha Price Chart
Available history 26 Jan 2026 through 4 Sep 2026 (110 observations). Monthly averages below use the midpoint of each published assessment.
Naphtha — Northwest Europe
Computed Summary
Statements below are calculated by CommodityScope from the loaded history only. Each one names its period and method; none explains why a value moved.
The latest assessment of $804.00/mt on 4 Sep 2026 is down $11.25 (-1.4%) from the previous daily assessment (3 Sep 2026).
Method: Computed by CommodityScope as the difference between the two most recent loaded daily observations (1 calendar day apart).
It is 7.8% above the August 2026 average of $745.84/mt, the most recent completed month with 20 daily observations.
Method: Arithmetic mean of the published daily midpoints in August 2026. Partial months are excluded from this comparison.
Over the loaded history (26 Jan 2026 – 4 Sep 2026), the highest assessment was $1030.25/mt on 7 Apr 2026 and the lowest was $531.25/mt on 26 Jan 2026.
Method: Minimum and maximum of the published midpoint over the loaded history (26 Jan 2026 – 4 Sep 2026, 110 observations). This is not an all-time record.
Price Changes and Historical Range
Published changes are copied from the source edition. Computed changes are CommodityScope calculations between loaded daily observations; the two are shown separately and may differ when an intermediate edition is not loaded.
Monthly Northwest Europe Naphtha Prices
Average, minimum and maximum of published midpoints in each calendar month. These are not the daily assessed low–high bands. Incomplete latest months are marked month to date.
| Month | Average mid | Min mid | Max mid | Observations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2026Month to date | 804.44 | 789.00 | 815.25 | 4 |
| August 2026 | 745.84 | 663.75 | 786.75 | 20 |
| July 2026 | 727.55 | 652.25 | 823.00 | 14 |
| June 2026 | 693.19 | 627.25 | 780.50 | 13 |
| May 2026 | 868.68 | 728.50 | 971.75 | 17 |
| April 2026 | 950.85 | 890.50 | 1030.25 | 13 |
| March 2026 | 850.20 | 690.25 | 997.00 | 16 |
| February 2026 | 560.16 | 545.00 | 587.25 | 11 |
| January 2026 | 550.63 | 531.25 | 570.00 | 2 |
Recent Daily Assessments
Last 30 published assessments. The chart above is interactive; this table is the HTML history.
| Date | Low | High | Mid | Δ day (published) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-04 | 803.75 | 804.25 | 804.00 | -11.25 |
| 2026-09-03 | 815.00 | 815.50 | 815.25 | +5.75 |
| 2026-09-02 | 809.25 | 809.75 | 809.50 | +20.50 |
| 2026-09-01 | 788.75 | 789.25 | 789.00 | +28.75 |
| 2026-08-28 | 760.00 | 760.50 | 760.25 | +17.00 |
| 2026-08-27 | 743.00 | 743.50 | 743.25 | +1.00 |
| 2026-08-26 | 742.00 | 742.50 | 742.25 | +1.25 |
| 2026-08-25 | 740.75 | 741.25 | 741.00 | -13.25 |
| 2026-08-24 | 754.00 | 754.50 | 754.25 | -32.50 |
| 2026-08-21 | 786.50 | 787.00 | 786.75 | +5.50 |
| 2026-08-20 | 781.00 | 781.50 | 781.25 | -3.00 |
| 2026-08-19 | 784.00 | 784.50 | 784.25 | -1.00 |
| 2026-08-18 | 785.00 | 785.50 | 785.25 | +27.75 |
| 2026-08-17 | 757.25 | 757.75 | 757.50 | +3.00 |
| 2026-08-14 | 754.25 | 754.75 | 754.50 | +7.75 |
| 2026-08-13 | 746.50 | 747.00 | 746.75 | +5.00 |
| 2026-08-12 | 741.50 | 742.00 | 741.75 | -12.75 |
| 2026-08-11 | 754.25 | 754.75 | 754.50 | -3.75 |
| 2026-08-10 | 758.00 | 758.50 | 758.25 | +35.75 |
| 2026-08-07 | 722.25 | 722.75 | 722.50 | +28.00 |
| 2026-08-06 | 694.25 | 694.75 | 694.50 | +30.75 |
| 2026-08-05 | 663.50 | 664.00 | 663.75 | -29.50 |
| 2026-08-04 | 693.00 | 693.50 | 693.25 | -57.75 |
| 2026-08-03 | 750.75 | 751.25 | 751.00 | -44.50 |
| 2026-07-31 | 795.25 | 795.75 | 795.50 | +8.75 |
| 2026-07-30 | 786.50 | 787.00 | 786.75 | -7.00 |
| 2026-07-28 | 742.50 | 743.00 | 742.75 | -33.50 |
| 2026-07-24 | 822.75 | 823.25 | 823.00 | -40.00 |
| 2026-07-20 | 767.25 | 767.75 | 767.50 | +4.00 |
| 2026-07-17 | 763.25 | 763.75 | 763.50 | +19.00 |
What This CIF NWE / ARA basis Price Represents
This page tracks the daily naphtha on a CIF NWE / ARA basis basis, quoted in USD/mt. Figures are CommodityScope Indicators synthesized from loaded market editions. They are not a live quote and not a republication of a price-reporting agency table.
How to use this series
- Follow cracker-feedstock costs by region; compare with gasoline in the same basis to read blending economics.
What it is not suitable for
- Converting between USD/bbl and USD/mt without a density assumption.
Compare With
Each comparison states why the series are related and whether the latest values can be subtracted directly (same unit, currency and assessment date). Where they cannot, the values are shown side by side without a difference.
| Series | Why compare | Latest | Difference (this − other) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Naphtha — ARA Barge FOB ARA · USD/mt · daily | Same naphtha in the same region on FOB ARA barge instead of CIF NWE cargo terms; the gap contains freight/insurance or barge-vs-cargo logistics, not quality.
| 800.00 4 Sep 2026 | +4.00 |
| Naphtha — Mediterranean CIF CIF Med · USD/mt · daily | CIF Med naphtha: the other European delivered value. | 791.25 4 Sep 2026 | +12.75 |
| Naphtha CIF NWE Forward CIF NWE · USD/mt · daily | Swap curve referencing this CIF NWE naphtha market; compare the M1 tenor with the physical value, not later tenors. | 803.00 4 Sep 2026 | +1.00 |
| Naphtha — Japan C+F Japan · USD/mt · daily | C+F Japan naphtha in the same unit: the Asian delivered value; the East–West naphtha gap.
| 863.00 4 Sep 2026 | -59.00 |
Related Naphtha Prices
- singapore naphtha pricesFOB Singapore
- arab gulf naphtha pricesFOB Arab Gulf
- fujairah naphtha pricesFOB Fujairah
- japan naphtha pricesC+F Japan
- mediterranean naphtha pricesFOB Med, East Med basis
- ara barge naphtha pricesFOB ARA
- mediterranean cif naphtha pricesCIF Med
- mediterranean gasoline 10ppm pricesFOB Med Italy
Sources and Methodology
CommodityScope publishes this page as a derived indicator from loaded physical-market editions. It does not republish a price-reporting agency table and does not claim authorship of the underlying source assessments. Update cadence follows the daily series. Internal series code CS-NWE-NAPH-CIF.
CS Indicator policy and derived-data rules.
Sources for the explanations on this page
- ICC Incoterms® 2020 rules (FOB, CFR, CIF, FCA definitions) — Meaning of the delivery terms used in the basis column.
- CommodityScope methodology — derived-indicator rules and computed statistics
Origin of the numbers: loaded market editions (see Basis and Unit above). Origin of the computed statistics: CommodityScope, from the loaded history, using the rules on the methodology page.