Platts Dispatch
End-of-day price assessments
About Platts
Platts, a division of The McGraw-Hill
Companies, Inc., is the world’s largest
and most authoritative provider of
energy information, research, and
marketing services.
Platts Dispatch is most efficient and reliable
way to receive Platts' industry-standard
benchmark assessments in data-point
format. Platts Dispatch will provide you
with our end-of-day assessments, correc-
tions, third-party data, and a rolling 45-day
historical database to help you reduce risk
when making important trading decisions,
valuing positions, and analyzing data.
Why Platts Dispatch?
You'll get the latest, most accurate price
assessments in a click of a mouse, allowing
you to react to market changes faster than
ever. Updated daily, our pricing information
is available to you online 24 hours a day.
With 150 categories of assessments at
your fingertips, you'll save time by simply
selecting and retrieving the data that's
relevant to your business.
Market coverage
Platts Dispatch provides benchmark
assessments for coal, electricity, metals,
natural gas, petrochemicals, and petroleum.
Data categories within these markets can
be custom-packaged to suit your needs.
Platts assessments
Petroleum
Crudes, products, lubes, postings, feed-
stocks and blendstocks, bunkers, tankers,
netbacks and yields, propane and LPG,
North American petroleum swaps, European
petroleum swaps, Asian petroleum swaps
Petrochemicals
Aromatics, olefins, polymers, solvents,
intermediates The most efficient and
reliable way to receive
Natural Gas
North American natural gas monthly and Platts' industry-standard
daily assessments, North American natural
gas daily forwards assessments, European
benchmark assessments
natural gas assessments, European gas in data-point format,
exchange prices
helping you reduce risk
Electricity when making impor-
North American electricity weekly and
daily assessments, North American tant trading decisions
daily electricity forwards assessments,
North American and European spark
spreads, European electricity daily
assessments, European power
exchange prices
Coal
North American daily and weekly
assessments, international
daily assessments
Metals
Aluminum, copper, lead, zinc, nickel, tin,
ferroalloys, precious metals, light metals
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your organization.
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PADD 5, Regional and Total U.S. • Comma-delimited (.csv) text files
compatible with Excel and other LATIN AMERICA
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EIA (Energy Information Administration): desktop applications.
North American natural gas statistics
Dispatch files can either be:
Futures Exchanges: • Retrieved from a Platts FTP site
NYMEX (Outrights and Nearby's), IPE • Downloaded directly to your desktop
(Outright and Nearby's), LME from www.platts.com
• Delivered through a third-party software