Discontinuation of US chlorinated solvents assessments

Platts has reviewed feedback on its proposal to discontinue the assessment of US trichloroethylene, perchloroethylene and methylene chloride markets, following a subscriber note published on May 4, 2010.

Following this internal review, Platts will discontinue these assessments from May 3, 2011. The affected assessments are basis FOB US Gulf and Delivered East of Rockies (DER) both in $/mt. These assessments are currently published on Platts Petrochemical Alert page 393 and the weekly Platts Solventswire. The affected Oracle codes are as below:

FOB US Gulf DER Trichloroethylene PHAEO00 PHAER00 Perchloroethylene PHAEU00 PHAEX00 Methylene Chloride PHAFE00 PHAFH00

Please direct any additional comments or queries by March 3, 2011, to Shahrin Ismaiyatim, Global Editorial Director for Platts Petrochemicals, either via telephone: +44-20 7176 6264 or email: shahrin@platts.com, with a copy to pricegroup@platts.com.