Platts introduces US Futures MOC

Commodity: Oil Region: Americas

The following codes were created in dispatch categories PN, RU.

They represent the daily Platts assessment of NYMEX RBOB, heating oil and crude value at precisely 3:15 pm ET for months 1, 2, 3.

Conversion factors are as follows: Crude: to get $/Gallons divide by 42. RBOB and heating oil: to get $/Bbl multiply by 42.

Daily numbers will be published in Crude Oil Marketwire (COM)(crude only), North American Crude Wire (crude Only), LP Gaswire (crue only), US Marketscan, Oilgram Price Report (OPR), Refiner, Latin American Wire Asia-Pacific/Arab Gulf Marketscan and in the Europe & Americas Petrochemicalscan for RBOB. New PGA pages will be announced.

Launch date is scheduled for June 1, 2009.

DISP SYMBOL BATES DEC FREQ CURR UOM DESCRIPTION PN NYRBM01 c 3 DW USD GAL NYMEX 3:15 pm ET RBOB M1 PN NYRBM02 c 3 DW USD GAL NYMEX 3:15 pm ET RBOB M2 PN NYRBM03 c 3 DW USD GAL NYMEX 3:15 pm ET RBOB M3