OILspace partners with the key energy market news and pricing indices in every region of the world. OILwatch subscribers rely on these industry benchmarks to make minute-by-minute financial decisions.


The New York Mercantile Exchange is the world's largest physical commodity futures exchange, and the preeminent trading forum for energy and precious metals in North America. Each day, the business community turns to the Exchange where the market's collective assessments of the value for crude oil, gasoline, heating oil, natural gas, propane, gold, silver, platinum, palladium, and copper are used as pricing benchmarks.



The IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) operates the leading market for trading Brent crude futures-- the key benchmark for pricing crude oil produced and consumed outside of the United States-- as well as a range of refined oil products. ICE also operates the primary market for trading cleared OTC Henry Hub contracts - the most actively traded natural gas hub in North America.



Established for over 130 years and located in the heart of The City of London, the London Metal Exchange is the world's premier non-ferrous metals market. It offers futures and options contracts for aluminium, copper, nickel, tin, zinc and lead plus two regional aluminium alloy contracts. In 2005 the Exchange launched the world's first futures contracts for plastics; for polypropylene and linear low density polyethylene, with the introduction of regional plastics contracts in 2007. A new steel billet contract will be fully launched on 28 April 2008.

The LME is a highly liquid market and in 2007 achieved volumes of 93 million lots, equivalent to $9,500 billion annually and between $35-45 billion on an average business day. Despite its London location the LME is a global market with an international membership and with more than 95% of its business coming from overseas.



Platts, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., is the world's largest and most trusted provider of energy information and marketing services for the oil, electricity, natural gas, petrochemical, coal, nuclear power, shipping, metals and bandwidth industries. Platts products range from real-time and Internet-based services to newsletters, market reports, databases, electronic directories, magazines, conferences, research services, geospatial tools and consulting. Every day, global energy markets base more than $10 billion of trading activity and term contract sales on Platts price assessments. Platts delivers timely, accurate and insightful energy intelligence when you want it, how you want it and wherever you need it, allowing you to turn reliable information into profitable action.



Dow Jones Newswires' award-winning content includes economic, financial and market-moving political news from around the world. It is the world's leading independent, real-time financial news provider, delivering more than 8,000 news items a day to more than 330,000 financial professionals in 66 countries.

In addition to this, millions of people access selected Dow Jones Newswires content through various corporate Internet sites, electronic exchanges, corporate intranets and business information services. Dow Jones Newswires provides real-time news services in ten languages.

In April 2003, Dow Jones Newswires was voted "News Provider of the Year" by market data and exchange professionals in the Market Data Awards, organised by the Risk Waters publication Inside Market Data. In August 2002, an independent survey of nearly half of all U.K. dealing-room professionals named Dow Jones Newswires the "Best Financial News Service". Dow Jones Newswires achieved the highest rating for speed of breaking news, reliability and breadth of reporting and overall customer satisfaction.

Founded in 1882, Dow Jones Newswires has more than 700 real-time editors and reporters. It is part of Dow Jones & Company's global news network of more than 1,600 news staff. Dow Jones Newswires also draws on the resources of several of its media partners including the Associated Press and Nikkei.



BBC Monitoring supplies news, information and comment gathered from the mass media around the world. Linguists and journalists operate around the clock to monitor more than 3,000 radio, TV, press, Internet and news agency sources, translating into English from up to 100 languages.

BBC Monitoring was created on the eve of World War II to help Britain track foreign propaganda. It has been a valuable source of information during subsequent upheavals, including the Cold War, the collapse of communism and more recent crises in the Gulf and in the Balkans.



Founded in 1970, Petroleum Argus is the world's leading independent energy market price reporting service. The Petroleum Argus spot market price assessments provide complete international coverage of the world's oil trade and are widely used as benchmarks for sale and purchase contracts. Argus has a broad range of newsletters in which the company's experienced team of journalists report international industry developments and analyse emerging trends in the energy sector. Specialist reports using original market sources contain vital information for anyone interested in the oil industry. With its comprehensive database, which includes its time series price assessments; fundamentals data on global supply, demand and stocks; and a unique database which records prices of confirmed actual deals, Petroleum Argus provides the most comprehensive energy reporting and analysis service available.



The Daily Hedger is published by The Energy Management Institute (EMI) and is read by energy professionals in Oil, Gas and Power. Traders, risk managers, and buyers rely on the Daily Hedger for critical downstream oil and gas news, analysis, pricing, market indicators, trading recommendations, purchasing and hedging advice, weather and more. Energy Management Institute also produces educational programs and provides hedging advisory services to large energy reliant firms.



FMC produces independent, neutral and accurate forward market curve data for the oil industry. It currently provides valuable price discovery for the most liquid benchmark crude oil and product grades traded in the Asian oil market. FMC was set up by all of the leading oil brokerage houses covering the Asian oil market from Singapore, Tokyo and London , whose combined curve data is the most robust mark-to-market standard available to the industry.



Intelligence Press Inc. is an independent publishing company and has been serving the energy industry since 1981 with leading news and price survey reports for the natural gas market in its publications: Natural Gas Intelligence, NGI's Daily Gas Price Index, NGI's Weekly Gas Price Index and Power Market Today. Intelligence Press publishes historical daily, weekly and biweek spot gas prices as well as educational products, including natural gas pipeline and storage maps and glossaries. Additionally, the company, commonly referred to as NGI by the energy industry, hosts conferences and workshops such as "Managing Natural Gas Price Risk Workshop" and the annual GasMart, www.gasmart.com, now in its 19th year -- for the natural gas industry.



Since 1977, OPIS has been the source for U.S. wholesale petroleum prices and news. OPIS spot, wholesale and retail coverage is distributed via newsletters, Internet, email and handheld wireless services. OPIS' more than 40 editors and pricing experts track more than 70,000 rack prices for heating oil, gasoline, diesel and kerosene, and thousands of contract prices for jet fuel, LP-gas, residual fuel, and ethanol. More than 85,000 retail gasoline prices are also tracked daily. OPIS clients include the top oil companies, thousands of distributors, traders, government and commercial buyers of petroleum products in North America.



ComStock is a major operating division of Interactive Data Corporation (NYSE:IDC), a leading global provider of financial & business information to institutional & individual investors.

ComStock is a leading real-time market data provider delivering information from more than 180 sources and exchanges world-wide. ComStock data is currently supplied to a wide range of end users and redistribution clients. This includes over six hundred redistribution clients globally, of which a significant number are Internet redistributors, making ComStock the largest supplier to redistributors in the world. For further information on ComStock, please visit us at http://www.comstock-interactivedata.com.



Shanghai Futures Exchange (SHFE) is a self-regulated non-profit organization, providing the place, facilities and services for the centralized trading of futures contracts. At present, there are 4 contracts including copper, aluminum, natural rubber and fuel oil. SHFE has more than 200 members, of which, above 80% are brokerage firms. SHFE has opened more than 250 remote trading terminals across China.



The Dubai Mercantile Exchange Limited (DME), a joint venture between Tatweer, a member of Dubai Holding, the New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc. (NYMEX) and the Oman Investment Fund (OIF) is the premier international energy futures and comodities exchange in the Middle East, uniquely positioned to provide price transparency and market liquidity for crude oil from the world's foremost oil producing and exporting region.



KORTES – leading Russian information company, active in monitoring, research and analysis of Russian domestic markets for crude, petroleum and petrochemical products, as well as in price monitoring (crude, petroleum and petrochemical products, processing costs); production and market statistics; market research of regional commodity markets, monoproduct markets; market situation reviews, oil companies, refiners and petrochemical producers profiles; references and dictionaries on the oil business.