Platts to enhance Europe PFC pages February 1

Platts proposes to extend and enhance Platts Forward Curve pages carrying assessments for European refined products swaps with effect from February 1, 2012.

An additional calendar year will be added to many of the existing curves, to extend the length of the assessments.

Additionally, Platts will granulate forward curve assessments to show the value of each individual contract month assessed, as well as existing quarterly and annual strip assessments.

This means that Platts will publish assessments for a total of 36 months, 12 calendar quarters and three calendar years for some refined products swaps and a total of 24 months, eight calendar quarters and two calendar years for others.

More than 1,100 data points will be added to the PFC Oil EMEA swap curves with these enhancements.

Platts will also provide midpoints for all assessments, where they are not already published.

All midpoints will be expressed to three decimal points. These extended and enhanced assessments will appear on page PPE1632 through to page PPE1688.

For a full list of new pages, discontinued pages, and mock-ups of what the new pages will look like, please visit Platts.com at: http://plts.co/pfcpe11. Please send comments and questions to europe_derivatives@platts.com and pricegroup@platts.com by January 3, 2012.