SUBSCRIBER NOTE: North Sea crude Quality Premiums for August 2017-loading cargoes

Effective Tuesday, August 1, 2017, the North Sea Quality Premium for August 2017-loading cargoes of Oseberg crude will be $0.4174/b, while a Quality Premium of $0.0000/b will be set for August 2017-loading cargoes of North Sea Ekofisk crude.

The month-ahead Ekofisk and Oseberg QPs can be found on Platts Global Alert pages 1210 and 1212, respectively, in Crude Oil Marketwire, and under codes AAXDZ00 and AAXDX00.

Current month QPs can be found on the same page and under codes AAXDY00 and AAXDW00, respectively.

The QPs are published to four decimal places and at 60% of the net price differences between Ekofisk and Oseberg, and the most competitive grade of crude among Brent, Forties, Oseberg and Ekofisk during the month prior to announcement.

Platts applies a threshold for minimum QPs to ensure the lowest QP for Oseberg and Ekofisk would be 25 cents/b, or else a QP of zero is published.

Under these calculations, a QP of zero will be announced if 60% of the observed price difference equates to less than a net 25 cents/b.

Platts announces QPs on the first publishing day of each month, a month prior to the escalators coming into effect.

Platts has made available a Question & Answer document in English, Mandarin and Russian that further elaborates on commonly raised questions from all respondents on its Dated Brent homepage at https://www.platts.com/price-assessments/oil/dated-brent. Please send any comments and queries to europe_crude@spglobal.com and pricegroup@spglobal.com