Energy markets remain volatile. Overall high prices and the increasing focus on effective risk management, derivatives control and accounting have seen the expanding community of forward market player’s demand for independent and comprehensive forward curves grow enormously.

Platts Forward Curve-Oil is Platts premier forward data product, providing an independent benchmark of the value of forward derivatives transactions for mark-to-market and Value-at-Risk purposes in petroleum markets.

Platts Forward Curve - Oil is not modeled, it was the first and remains the only independent service to provide assessments and historical data based on actual transactions, bids and offers, and provides indispensable analytical coverage of every relevant aspect of the global oil derivatives market.

Platts Forward Curve - Oil provides:

• Independent assessments of swaps in European, Asian or US petroleum markets based on real market activity rather than models
• Independent swaps market commentary.

Our full service offers both exchange-traded futures and swaps and over-the-counter swaps allowing you to run daily mark-to-market validation, aid internal auditing and support portfolio risk metrics such as:

• Value-at-risk
• Stress Testing
• Risk disaggregation

Platts Forward Curve- Oil comprises 3 separate products covering Europe, Asia and the Americas.

European Series

Platts Forward Curve- Oil provides swap assessments going forward as much as 3 years for over 350 data points covering crude oil and crude oil products.

Crude Swap assessments include:

• Brent CFD
• Dated to frontline Brent
• WTI-Brent
• Brent-Dubai EFS
• Dubai inter-month swaps.

Crude Oil Products swaps include:

• Crack spread swaps relating to the value of gasoline, naptha and gasoil to Brent.
• A selection of European benchmark swaps including gasoline, naptha, jet kero, diesel and gasoil and fuel oil.

Asia Series

In addition to Asian assessments for swaps on Tapis and Dubai, the two regional marker crudes, Platts Forward Curve - Oil provides crack spread swap values against these two markers, and Singapore products and product timing spread swaps.

Americas Series

The Americas series reports on swaps traded in the US, on the Atlantic Coast, Gulf Coast and West Coast. Crude Swaps covered include gasoline, jet fuel, heat and residual swaps.

Platts Global Alert addition

Platts Global Alert subscribers receive access to our extended range of futures and options coverage. The data series on PGA now contains daily news coverage optimised for derivatives participants as well as fundamental and technical analysis of the main petroleum futures contracts. The additional coverage also includes new reports on options and market volatility.

Platts has developed partnerships with leading network and software providers to create tailor-made solutions for integrating Platts information with your operation.

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