FOB Urals assessments, as of January 12

Effective January 12, the netback calculations for FOB Urals assessments will use a Rotterdam port charge of 15 cents/barrel in line with the changes announced by Worldscale.

The previous charge, which was effective since January 4, was 16 cents/b as originally stated by worldscale for 2010.

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