Natural Gas

August 31, 2026

Platts launches Moss Bluff Hub daily natural gas index

Platts, part of S&P Global Energy, has launched a new Moss Bluff Hub daily natural gas index, effective for trade date Aug. 31 and flow date Sept. 1, 2026.

This launch follows a methodology proposal published July 7, 2026, available here, and a decision published July 28, available here.

The specifications for the new location index are as follows:

Moss Bluff Hub (daily market only): Deliveries into and out of interstate and intrastate pipelines at the Moss Bluff Hub in Liberty County, Texas. Pipelines include Texas Eastern Transmission, Natural Gas Pipeline Co. of America, Houston Pipe Line, Kinder Morgan Tejas Pipeline, Kinder Morgan Texas Pipeline, and the Enterprise Texas Intrastate System (including the Channel system). Included are deliveries and receipts into and out of Moss Bluff storage.

The new symbols for Moss Bluff Hub are as follows:

Name of Indices Description of Symbol Market Data Category Bates Published Symbol
Final Daily Indices By Trade Date Index and Common Range GD h,l,u,w IGBST00
Absolute Range GD h,l IGBST20
Deal Count GD u BGBST00
Cash Basis GD c GCBST00
Preliminary Daily Indices By Trade Date Index and Common Range GI h, l, c, w PXBST00
Absolute Range GI h,l PXBST20
Deal Count GI u PMBST00
Final Daily Indices By Flow Date Index and Common Range GD h, l, u, w IGBST21
Absolute Range GD h.l IGBST22
Deal Count GD u BGBST21
Weekly Average GD h,l,u IGBST04
Monthly Average GD u,w IGBST06
Monthly Average GD u IGBST08
Preliminary Daily Indices By Flow Date Index and Common Range GI h, l, c, w PNBST21
Absolute Range GI h,l POBST22
Deal Count GI u PPBST21
Weekly Average GI h,l,c PRBST04
Monthly Average GI c PSBST06

Other symbols under this launch include:

Description of Symbol Symbol
Preliminary Mean ATVE241
Preliminary Standard Deviation ATVE242
ICE Price Reporter Trades DGBST50
ICE Non-Price Reporter Trades DGBST51
Non-ICE Trades DGBST52

The prices are available in Gas Daily, Energy Trader, Inside FERC's Gas Market Report, and in the fixed pages PGN0610, AGP0120, PGN1305, AGP0610, PGN1395 and AGP0611.

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