New and adjusted DTN rack price symbols

Platts has created a set of new symbols for petroleum product rack (wholesale) prices from DTN. Like other daily DTN rack symbols, these will update twice a day Monday-Saturday, at approximately 9:30-10am and 4:30-5pm US Eastern time. Current prices plus any price history previously received from DTN will begin updating shortly.

Platts has also adjusted several sets of existing DTN rack symbols to reflect market and other changes, as follows: * Noble has acquired SemFuels, and the SemFuels symbols have stopped updating, so they are being discontinued - moved to dispatch categories with 3-character codes ending in 'Z'. * PetroCanada has merged with Suncor, and the PetroCanada symbols have stopped updating, so they are also being discontinued. * In computing averages, DTN treats Nanaimo and Bare Point BC as a single rack location, so the descriptions for all 'Nanaimo' symbols have been changed to 'Nanaimo/Bare Pt'. For supplier prices reflecting that location, Shell prices are for Bare Pt, and Esso and Suncor prices are for Nanaimo. * Descriptions for all Newfoundland and Labrador locations have been adjusted to reflect the correct province abbreviation - NL instead of NF.

For a complete list of the new and adjusted symbols, including dispatch category, symbol descriptive information (currency, unit of measure, etc) and predecessor symbols where applicable, go to http://www.platts.com/IM.Platts.Content/MethodologyReferences/NewDiscontinued Codes/Codes/dtnrackdec09.xls . Note that you may need to copy the url (starting with 'http:' and ending with '.xls') and paste it into your web browser.

If you have any questions or comments regarding this announcement, please contact your local Platts Customer Care representative, or email support@platts.com.