OPEC crude basket prices published on PGA207

Effective June 22, 2009, Platts has changed the way it reports OPEC crude basket prices, and will now be publishing daily, weekly, monthly and annual basket prices each day on PGA207.

This will replace the short news story previously sent each day with the latest daily basket price as well as the weekly price updates on PGA207.

As part of the enhanced reporting of the OPEC basket prices, the following symbols have been created in dispatch category RI:

DISP SYMBOL BATES DEC FREQ CURR UOM DESCRIPTION RI AAEUQ04 c 2 DW USD BBL OPEC Basket Weekly RI AAEUQ03 c 2 DW USD BBL OPEC Basket Monthly RI AAEUQ01 c 2 DW USD BBL OPEC Basket Yearly

In addition, the daily code has had its description revised from: AAEUQ00 OPEC Basket

to: AAEUQ00 OPEC Basket Daily

For more information on this data, please go to: http://www.opec.org/home/basket.aspx.