SUBSCRIBER NOTE: S&P Global Platts updates Americas cracker margins methodology to reflect assessment name change

S&P Global Platts has updated the methodology for its Americas Petrochemicals Cracker Margin to reflect a renamed assessment that factors into the daily calculation.

The methodology will reflect use of the USGC HSFO (PUAFZ00) after the Fuel Oil No. 6 3%S USGC Waterborne (PUAFZ00) assessment was renamed earlier this year in order to standardize across all Platts publications. There are no changes to the formulas used to calculate cracker margins.

The cracker margins appear daily on PCA 544.

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