Platts-ICE Forward Curve - Natural Gas is a comprehensive and independent view of forward pricing in the North American natural gas market and provides the marketplace with a complete and independently-derived set of curves tailored to meet the growing risk-management needs of the trading community.

The Platts-ICE Forward Curve - Natural Gas includes daily assessment of the financial basis swap market at 20 key trading hubs and extends out nearly three years.

The product combines the data-gathering power and expertise of both Platts and Intercontinental Exchange (ICE). Platts gathers information on the forward market through the non-commercial departments of companies, from discussions with traders and brokers active in the market, and then incorporates gas forward trading activity from ICE, including transactions and bids and offers.

Platts experts co-mingle the data under established methodologies to formulate the daily assessments.

The market-on-close assessments reflect values in the financial basis-swap market at the 20 locations at the 2:30 pm EPT close of open outcry trading of the New York Mercantile Exchange Henry Hub gas futures contract, which allows the assessments to line up and be compared with the NYMEX Henry Hub contract settlement prices.

Assessments are expressed both in basis values (plus of minus the NYMEX gas futures contract) and full-value equivalents.

Packages:

Daily assessments and associated ranges are formulated for the prompt month, second month, third month, four full seasons, and three calendar years. Seasonal packages are the November-March winter package and the April-October summer package.

Daily assessments and associated ranges are formulated for the these key gas trading hubs:

• Algonquin city-gate
• Transco 6 N.Y.
• Texas Eastern, M-3
• Columbia Gas, Appalachia
• Transco, zone 3
• Florida Gas, zone 3
• Trunkline, LA
• Chicago city-gates
• MichCon city-gate
• Panhandle, Tx.-Oklahoma
• Houston Ship Channel
• Waha
• El Paso, Permian Basin
• El Paso, San Juan Basin
• PG&E city-gate
• Northwest, Rocky Mountains
• SoCal Gas
• Northwest, Canadian Border (Sumas)
• Dawn, Ontario
• TCPL Alberta, AECO-C

Platts-ICE - Forward Curve Natural Gas allows you to run daily mark-to-market validation, aid internal auditing and support portfolio risk metrics such as:

• Value-at-risk
• Stress Testing

Risk disaggregation

Platts has developed partnerships with leading network and software providers to create tailor-made solutions for integrating Platts information with your operation.

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