Platts to assess North Sea crude differential assessment

Platts will publish a North Sea crude differential assessment, which will reflect the difference in value between Dated Brent and the North Sea Dated Strip each day. The new assessment will be called the Dated Brent differential.

This assessment will appear in the Platts Crude Oil Marketwire, Oilgram Price Report and Platts Global Alert pages 1212 and 1250 under code AAXEZ00 (for the daily assessment) and AAXEZ03 (for the monthly average). BFOE Diff

Launch date is scheduled for July 1, 2013.

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