Additional monthly average codes and description change

The following description has been changed: FROM: RI AAPEX00 hl Nile Bld Spd Vs OSP Pt Bashair

TO: RI AAPEX00 hl Nile Bld Spd Vs ICP Pt Bashair

The following monthly codes have been created in dispatch category RI.

They represent monthly averages of daily crude differential assessments.All monthly codes are represented by low (l), high (h) and close (c=mean) bates. All are measured in US$/bbl and carry 2 decimal places.

Monthly average data will be backfilled after the February monthly averages have been run.

These averages are already published in Platts Monthly Price Supplement.

Launch date is scheduled for Mar 1, 2009. ' RI AAPEX03 chl Nile Bld Spd Vs ICP MAvg RI AAPEU03 chl Ras Gas Spd Vs Dubai MAvg RI AAPEW03 chl Al-Shaheen Spd Vs Dubai MAvg