Platts to launch East-West forward curve assessments for Singapore 380 CST HSFO, Marine Fuel 0.5% from April 4

S&P Global Commodity Insights will begin publishing East-West forward curve assessments for Singapore 380 CST high sulfur fuel oil and Singapore Marine Fuel 0.5%, from April 4, 2022.

The two assessment series will reflect the spreads between FOB Singapore 380 CST HSFO and FOB Rotterdam 3.5% barge; and FOB Singapore Marine Fuel 0.5% and FOB Rotterdam Marine fuel 0.5% barge.

The assessments will complement S&P Global's existing publication of forward curves and provide additional information of the spreads that are key to trade and arbitrage flows of these products.

S&P Global will publish these spreads for 12 subsequent months from the current month. The assessments will roll to the next month from the 1st publishing day of every month. The assessments will reflect 4:30 pm Singapore timestamp and will follow the Singapore publishing schedule.

The Singapore 380 CST HSFO versus FOB Rotterdam 3.5% barge E-W assessments will be published on Platts Forward Curve Oil-Asia Fixed Page PPA2655, while the Singapore Marine Fuel 0.5% versus FOB Rotterdam Marine Fuel 0.5% barge assessments will be published on Platts Forward Curve Oil-Asia Fixed Page PPA2656.

S&P Global currently publishes FOB Singapore 180 CST HSFO versus FOB Rotterdam 3.5% barge E-W assessments, which appear on Platts Forward Curve Oil-Asia Fixed Page PPA2660.

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