# May 2026

Released on May 6, 2026.

April 2026 data are now available. Available forecasts through October 2026.

## Intratec Primary Commodity Prices

New data were released. No changes were made to the calculation models.

## Intratec Energy Prices & Markets

[!badge variant="base" text="MINOR FEATURE"] Coverage of newly added energy-price assessments continues to expand.

[!badge variant="primary" text="MINOR IMPROVEMENT"] **Light fuel-oil methodology.** Fuel Oil (light), household, United States (`8727805-8-1`) now uses a seasonal estimate for months it did not previously cover; values for December 2025 were revised as a result.

[!badge variant="warning" text="FIX"] **Finland natural-gas correction.** A calculation error affecting the Finland industrial natural-gas price (`692718-8-2`) was corrected.

[!badge variant="warning" text="FIX"] Energy prices across a broad range of markets were revised for 2016–2026, with additional values revised for 2009–2026.

[!badge variant="dark" text="RETIRED"] **Discontinued freight and coal assessments.** Several discontinued LNG freight routes (from Australia, Norway, Qatar, and the US), a light-fuels freight route from South Africa, and a Canada coal export price were removed as no longer maintained.

## Intratec Industry Economics Worldwide

[!badge variant="info" text="MAJOR IMPROVEMENT"] **Utility-price methodology update.** Process-water cost assessments for 17 countries (Belgium, China, Czechia, Germany, Spain, Finland, France, UK, Hungary, Italy, South Korea, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Turkey, South Africa) now use a producer-price-index-anchored model, with an estimate for forecast months; 21 other countries received calibration adjustments; every demineralized-water cost assessment now depends on its country's process-water price. Values for the affected countries were revised for 2025-11–2026-04 accordingly.

[!badge variant="warning" text="FIX"] **Demineralized-water input corrected.** Demineralized-water cost assessments for 38 countries were corrected to reference the correct published water-price assessment; Carbon Monoxide cost assessments for the Philippines (`4623285-7-4`) and South Korea (`6023292-7-5`) were revised across their full published history accordingly.

[!badge variant="warning" text="FIX"] **Labor-history and payroll corrections.** Manufacturing-productivity equations were standardized across 38 countries, and a data-status conflict that had been suppressing 2025 employer social-security-contribution data for 17 countries was resolved — that data is now correctly published.

[!badge variant="warning" text="FIX"] **Location-factor correction.** A calculation error that had produced a spike in early-history values was corrected for the location factor in Czech Republic (`9165-6-3`), Spain (`0776-6-3`), Germany (`3943-6-2`), Belgium (`3750-6-2`), France (`2066-6-2`), and Japan (`4544-6-5`), covering 2007–2014; location-factor assessments for Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Mexico, and Canada were revised for the same period accordingly.

[!badge variant="warning" text="FIX"] **Labor-factor correction.** A scale-factor error was corrected for the labor factor in the United States (`5920830-6-1`), Chile (`2223307-6-1`), Colombia (`4123300-6-1`), and China (`0520837-6-5`), covering early history.

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