New North Sea crude oil assessments

Commodity: Oil Region: Europe

The following symbols have been created in dispatch category RI.

They represent daily assessments of Statfjord and Gullfaks crudes CIF Rotterdam and spreads vs forward dated Brent and monthly averages.

Conversion from US$/BBl to US$/Mt are as follows:

Statfjord multiply by 7.584 Gullfaks multiply by 7.513

The daily assessments will be published in Platts Dispatch Platts Oilgram Price Report, Platts Crude Oil Marketwire and on PGA pages 12 and 594.

Monthly averages will be published in Platts Price Average Supplement.

Launch date is scheduled for January 4, 2010.

DISP SYMBOL BATES DEC FREQ CURR UOM DESCRIPTION RI AASAS00 lh 2 DW USD BBL Statfjord CIF Rotterdam RI AASAS03 lhc 2 MA USD BBL Statfjord CIF Rotterdam MAvg RI AASAT00 lh 2 DW USD BBL Statfjord CIF Diff Dtd Brent RI AASAT03 lhc 2 MA USD BBL Statfjord CIF Diff Dtd Brent MA RI AASAU00 lh 2 DW USD BBL Gullfaks CIF Rotterdam RI AASAU03 lhc 2 MA USD BBL Gullfaks CIF Rotterdam MAvg RI AASAV00 lh 2 DW USD BBL Gullfaks CIF Diff Dtd Brent RI AASAV03 lhc 2 MA USD BBL Gullfaks CIF Diff Dtd Brent MAvg