{"id":78614,"date":"2026-09-18T13:02:56","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T12:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=78614"},"modified":"2026-09-18T13:02:56","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T12:02:56","slug":"dzw-e04a4521b48d28513eb2bc0af9f407691ad5c6c7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=78614","title":{"rendered":"Naphtha Shipments to South Korea Topped by Algeria"},"content":{"rendered":"

Algeria<\/a> has strengthened its standing in the Asian energy product market, securing the leading position among naphtha suppliers to South Korea<\/a> during the first half of 2026. Data from the Korean International Trade Association (KITA) indicates Algeria achieved a 17.2% share of South Korea's total naphtha imports for this period. This result is significant given South Korea's prominence in the global petrochemical industry and its substantial demand for raw materials.<\/p>\n

Algeria's market share has demonstrated a continuous upward trajectory in recent years. According to Hussein Ismail, an Asian Affairs expert, this share increased from 12.9% in 2024 to 15.6% in 2025, culminating in the 17.2% recorded in the first six months of 2026. This consistent growth underscores the importance of the recent achievement, even when accounting for the shorter measurement period compared to full-year data.<\/p>\n

The country's leadership emerges amidst a competitive market where several nations vie to meet South Korea's naphtha requirements. Algeria's ability to provide consistent and competitive supplies, combined with continuous South Korean industrial demand for the material, has been a key factor, as noted by Ismail. The expert also cited Algeria's geographical location in the Mediterranean and its connectivity to international maritime trade routes as contributing elements to its capacity to deliver shipments to Asian markets.<\/p>\n

This market position presents Algeria with a dual objective: to maintain its share in this competitive market and to leverage its commercial presence to support local industrial transformation. Ismail suggests that Algeria could strategically transition from exporting raw naphtha to developing petrochemical industries for higher value-added products, while concurrently fulfilling external demand. Discussions between Algerian and South Korean officials in 2026 have already explored cooperation opportunities in oil, naphtha, petrochemicals, liquefied natural gas (LNG), and hydrogen, providing a foundation for potential partnerships in investment<\/a>, technology<\/a>, and industrial expertise to achieve this goal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Algeria became the leading naphtha supplier to South Korea in the first half of 2026, securing a 17.2% share of the country’s total imports. This achievement reinforces Algeria’s position in Asia’s energy product market, leveraging South Korea’s significant role in global petrochemical industries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-algeria"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78615,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78614\/revisions\/78615"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/78613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}