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LONDON, April 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The International Energy Agency (IEA) has decided to switch its data provider for oil markets to leading energy and commodity price reporting agency Argus. The IEA will use Argus for its crude oil, petroleum products, LPG and freight information. The IEA produces a number of important publications including the influential monthly Oil Market Report (OMR) which will use Argus price data in future. The IEA was founded by OECD nations in...
LONDON, April 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The international energy and commodities reporting organisation, Argus, has launched a new series of European spot LNG price assessments and new forward Asia-Pacific delivery periods. This reflects the growing liquidity of spot LNG trade and the market's need for accurate pricing benchmarks. The new European assessments cover cargoes for delivery to northwest Europe, the Iberian peninsula, Italy, Greece and Turkey and are accompanied by a...
LONDON, April 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The CME has successfully launched a new hedging tool for European gasoline based on Rotterdam prices published by international energy and commodity price reporting agency Argus. The CME mini gasoline swap contract of 100t lots, which is priced against the Argus Rotterdam gasoline price assessments, was launched on 12 March. By the end of March it had cleared 665 lots, or 66,500t of gasoline. The mini gasoline swap has a smaller lot size than...
HOUSTON, March 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Global energy price reporting agency Argus and independent investment research provider Morningstar, Inc. today announced that Argus North American electricity and natural gas forward curves are now available through Morningstar Commodity Data (formerly LIM). Morningstar offers software solutions to access, manage and analyze energy data, and is the second enterprise data management provider to introduce Argus forward curves since the service...
LONDON, March 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Global energy price reporting organisation Argus notes the recent Iosco consultation on oil price reporting agencies. The consultation is part of Iosco's work in responding to a request from the G20 at the Cannes Summit in November 2011 to prepare, in collaboration with the International Energy Agency (IEA), the International Energy Forum (IEF) and Opec, recommendations on price reporting agencies by mid-2012. Argus is always happy to work...
HOUSTON, Feb. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Global energy price reporting agency Argus has introduced North American electricity and natural gas forward curves through ZE PowerGroup Inc (ZE). ZE is the developer of ZEMA Suite, a robust data management platform designed for energy and commodities markets. ZEMA is the first enterprise data management solution to introduce Argus forward curves since they were launched in January 2012. Argus' new suite of services cover: North American...
LONDON, Feb. 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading energy and commodity price reporting agency Argus today announced the acquisition of Fundalytics, a specialist European natural gas fundamentals data service. Founded in 2009, Fundalytics compiles, cleans and publishes fundamental data for European natural gas markets. Data sets include supply and demand, inventories, interconnector flows, nominations, allocations and many other types of key information useful for planning and analysis....
HOUSTON, Jan. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Global energy price reporting agency Argus has launched forward curve services for North American natural gas and electricity. The new suite of services covers: North American Natural Gas Forward Curves, North American Electricity Forward Curves, Electricity/Natural Gas Correlation Curves and Electricity Forward Heat Rate Curves. Together, the new services provide a minimum of seven years forward monthly values for all major natural gas and...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Global energy price reporting agency Argus has launched a monthly index for emissions allowances created by the California Air Resources Board's greenhouse gas trading program. Argus began daily pricing for the California Carbon Allowance market on 26 August and published the first monthly index on 30 September. The new California Carbon Allowance monthly index provides independent price discovery ahead of the launch of the state's greenhouse gas...
LONDON, Sept. 26, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Global energy price reporting agency Argus will assess jet fuel on a cif delivered basis in the Mediterranean from today, in response to widespread market demand. Shifts in inter-regional trading patterns and refinery configurations have meant that the Mediterranean market has switched from being a net exporter of jet fuel to being a net importer, and Argus is seeking to represent this change by assessing the product on a cif delivered west...
