Platts LNG Service

A renewed focus to solve your business challenges

Platts LNG Service

To meet the market requirement for a more connected view of what is driving the price of LNG, S&P Global Platts has increased the volume and diversity of news and analysis, data sets and analytical tools we deliver.

Reflecting this pivotal change in industry requirements and
usage, we have developed a new approach that delivers our
full range of LNG content and analytical tools, into three
simplified, enterprise-wide offerings:
Platts Market Data – LNG: our industry benchmark
price assessments
Platts Market Insight – LNG: our news, analysis, forecasts,
fundamental data and analytical tools
Platts Risk Market Data – LNG: our forward curves for
key trading hubs

Meanwhile, we are working hard to improve your day-to-day experience of working with us, with a renewed focus on closer collaboration. Armed with this deeper understanding of your business challenges and strategies, your S&P Global Platts representative can guide you towards the relevant additional data sets and tools now available to you, helping drive your business performance to new levels.

Platts Market Data – LNG

Platts LNG price assessments provide a basis for trade
across commodities, and the world. But in this increasingly
integrated and globalized trading environment, understanding
the correlation between regions and sectors in order to compete effectively has never been more important. This is why we have developed the new Platts Market Data – LNG package which provides access to the full breadth and depth of our LNG market data, including benchmarks and contract price assessments, plus:

- View our key LNG price assessment Platts JKM™ for
spot physical cargoes delivered ex-ship into Japan and
South Korea (with normalized prices for spot cargoes to
China and Taiwan also included) alongside JKM™ swaps
– Access daily LNG spot market assessments: delivered ex-ship prices for Northwest (NWE) and Mediterranean (MED), West India and the Middle East and free on board assessments for the US Gulf Coast (GCM™) and East Atlantic, as well as other regional assessments
– LNG carrier day rates, iTime-Charter Rates (TCR), global LNG freight route costs, LNG Bunker assessments, alternative fuels and cargo data

– Historical data to enable you to look at past market trends to inform your future plans and back testing needs
– Platts™ Excel® Add-Ins or API feeds to enable you to act faster
– Enterprise-wide access to our LNG market data, making it available to both those who find it essential and those who would find it useful. Combining this with the power of Platts standardized benchmark data will drive consistency and reduce basis risk throughout your organization — from strategy, trading and planning, to treasury and asset optimization
– A robust and transparent methodology that brings consistency to our LNG price assessments through principles and parameters that guide our market specialists at every stage of the process

Platts Market Data – LNG Key Assessments

Location	Assessment
North America	Platts Gulf Coast Marker (GCM™)
APAC	Platts Japan Korea Marker (JKM™)
EMEA	Platts Mediterranean Marker (MED) Platts Northwest Europe Marker (NWE)
West India	Platts West India Marker (WIM)

Platts Market Insight – LNG

The better you get to know our wider capabilities, the more you will appreciate our unique ability to reveal the crucial story behind the numbers. We’ve long been synonymous with timely and insightful market news and reports, delivered by market specialists around the globe. Increasingly, though, your peers are discovering the benefits of combining these capabilities with the first truly integrated analysis and data sets across geographies, commodities and the supply chain.

Whether you are selling, buying or trading LNG, Platts Market Insight – LNG provides you with the critical information you need to act confidently:

– Real-time information covering the LNG market and industry news and events, that is fully integrated with market commentary and incisive analysis of supply, demand, inventories, infrastructure and trade flows
– In-depth weekly market analysis on supply and demand fundamentals, outlook and prices, LNG freight rate forecasts, and LNG contracts and projects
– A greater depth of trade flow data along with robust and intuitive interactive analytics tools to interrogate it
– Live ship tracking and volumes, heards, and key regional price forecasts
– A range of regional trends explaining shifts in under-supply, over supply and fluctuating demand to manage its impact and pin-point a robust price
and supply for LNG

– Five year fundamental forecasts and market analysis to understand the impact of new supply and distribution infrastructure
– Detailed, data-driven market reports providing you with market intelligence for trading and hedging decisions
– Access to our analysts and market specialists to gain an even deeper understanding

By working more closely with you, we are helping you access and make use of the unrivaled breadth and depth of connected insight we provide, to solve business challenges, both anticipated and unforeseen. What’s more, enterprise-wide access to the most comprehensive insights package available on the market means you can drive business performance like never before.

Platts Risk Market Data – LNG

In a market environment that generates plenty of uncertainties, Platts Risk Market Data – LNG offers an independent, verifiable source of data to help you validate valuations and better align risk tolerance with business strategy.

Platts Forward Curves (PFC) are produced by the industry’s largest editorial team, who observe the spot and derivatives markets. With assessments and market commentary based on actual market activity and transactions, you’re well equipped to support your trading strategies and capitalize on emerging opportunities.

When it comes to informing business-critical risk decisions it’s imperative that everyone who needs to know, knows, which is why we provide enterprise-wide access to our range of LNG forward curves:

– LNG Forward Curves provide fair market value-based forward curves for the key LNG trading hubs, Platts JKM™ and North America (FOB USGC), extending over 48 forward months
– Platts quantitatively-derived forward curves for JKM™ reflect tenors further out than the following calendar year, while the prompt months, quarters and calendar years are editorially assessed
– The entire Platts GCM™ forward curve is quantitatively derived and is designed to help you manage market price risk

Some of your peers choose to use our forward curves to validate internally-derived curves, calculate mark-to-market valuations to determine profit and loss, or to calculate key metrics such as Value-at-Risk. Others use them to report the fair value of financial instruments, manage counterparty credit exposure and collateral requirements, or to assess the market value of assets and liabilities.