Crude Oil

May 14, 2025

Platts to launch daily US and Canada Crude Rationales May 19

Platts, part of S&P Global Commodity Insights, will launch daily rationales for some of its US and Canadian Crude assessments, effective May 19.

Details of the assessments in the rationale are as follows:

AssessmentSymbolUOM
WTI Midland vs. ICE HOUWMVIH00$/barrel
Pacific Cold Lake vs. ICE Brent FuturesATMXB00$/barrel
Pacific Dilbit vs. ICE Brent FuturesATMXF00$/barrel

The rationales will reflect assessments with the latest information sourced from the market up to the close of the assessment process at 1:30 pm Central time daily and will follow the US and Canadian publishing calendars. The rationales will be published daily on Crude Oil Marketwire, Platts Global Alert and Platts Crude Oil Alert.

Please send all comments, feedback, and questions to Americas_crude@spglobal.com and pricegroup@spglobal.com.

For written comments, please provide a clear indication if comments are not intended for publication by Platts for public viewing.

Platts will consider all comments received and will make comments not marked as confidential available to the public upon request.