Platts to add locations to forward gas assessments

After a period of industry feedback Platts will add seven locations to its daily forward assessments for North American natural gas effective October 28, 2010.

The locations, which Platts is adding to the Platts-ICE Forward Curve Natural Gas are: Columbia Gulf, mainline; Dominion, South Point (Dominion, Appalachia in Platts' monthly survey); NGPL, Texok zone; Northern, demarcation (also known as Demarc in the forward swaps market); Northern, Ventura; PG&E, Malin; and Tennessee, Louisiana, 500 Leg.

Definitions for these delivery locations are consistent with those for the Platts daily and monthly physical gas survey descriptions, which can be found in the North American Natural Gas Methodology and Specifications Guide on platts.com.

These seven new assessments will be available along with the existing 21 assessments in the forward curve add-on to Platts Natural Gas Alert and via Platts Dispatch in category GN. Comments may be sent to Mike Wilczek at mike_wilczek@platts.com or Brian Jordan at brian_jordan@platts.com with a cc to pricegroup@platts.com.