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Alberta sulfur price: inventory, exports, and what the desk quotes

Searches for Alberta sulfur price, Alberta sulphur price today, or sulfur price in Alberta usually mix provincial inventory, seaborne export FOB Vancouver, and domestic list prices in different units. Sulfur Wire does not mint a single undated Alberta spot ticker; it groups the public lines desks already use before they translate yuan replacement into Pacific stems.

Alberta holds almost all of Canada's recovered elemental sulfur that eventually exports as formed sulfur through Pacific terminals. The Alberta Energy Regulator ST3 sulphur balance tables publish provincial closing inventory tonnes by month with clear attribution dates. That inventory line is the stock anchor behind rail cycles to Pacific Coast Terminals and Vancouver Wharves, not a published yuan spot.

Open export pricing for Canadian product is usually FOB Vancouver granular in US dollars per metric tonne on trade-press roundups such as ChemPriceHub's international sulfur summaries, tagged SR-VAN-FOB-G in prices-latest.json alongside Tampa molten, Gulf FOB, and China domestic yuan rows. Compare only after you convert tons, note form (granular versus molten), and cite the same trade date as the source URL.

China domestic replacement cost for the same buyers runs through Shengyishe and SunSirs yuan tables on the China sulfur price topic page. When those benchmarks fall faster than Vancouver FOB, import parity softens for Pacific stem nominations. Middle East contract postings (QatarEnergy QSP, KPC KSP, ADNOC OSP) remain separate USD FOB lines on the Middle East sulfur contract price page until a dated November print lands on an open wire.

For Vancouver stem volumes, Port of Vancouver fertilizer-category sulphur exports ran about 3.51 million tonnes in 2025 per VFPA Statistics Overview, with Alberta and BC forming plants feeding the loadport system. For Canadian production context, USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries list national recovered sulfur output and average mine- or plant-gate unit values that are not the same as seaborne FOB.

Licensed Argus, CRU, ICIS, and Platts weekly assessment grids stay with their publishers. Sulfur Wire restates only figures with dated open URLs and tags observation classes in methodology.

Subscribe to the free Monday NA Sulfur Outlook for weekly Pacific and Alberta inventory and price context with source links. For granular FOB history and FAQ, use the Vancouver sulfur price topic.

FAQ

What is the Alberta sulfur price today?

There is no single public Alberta elemental spot tick. Desks pair AER ST3 sulphur inventory through the latest attributed month with open FOB Vancouver anchors tagged SR-VAN-FOB-G in prices-latest.json (last ChemPriceHub roundup mid-October 2026) and yuan replacement on the China sulfur price page, each with its own source URL and date.

How do I compare Alberta sulfur to Vancouver FOB or China yuan?

Use formed sulfur FOB Vancouver in US dollars per metric tonne for export netbacks, Shengyishe or SunSirs yuan domestic benchmarks for Chinese replacement cost, and AER inventory for how much sulfur sits in-province waiting on rail and loadport slots. Convert units before you line them up in one row.

Does Sulfur Wire publish Argus or Platts Alberta assessments?

Sulfur Wire lists only open-source anchors with dated URLs. Licensed weekly price reporting agency assessments require commercial redistribution rights.

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NA Sulfur Outlook: weekly Pacific and Alberta desk brief. Free at [email protected].

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