M2M Gas

Platts M2M-Gas is a transparent, objective tool that provides you with market-based, 36-month natural gas forwards and 20-year forward curve benchmarks at 79 key trading hubs in North America. Platts’ independent and objective price valuations provide the definitive mark-to-market, portfolio risk management, and strategic decision support needed to make confident decisions.

Benefits

Platts M2M-Gas is a dependable source of natural gas price benchmark information that enables clear, informed valuations and better investment and trading decisions. This important resource allows you to underscore your commitment to efficient risk practices by providing the checks and balances of an independently provided, third party benchmark.

• Risk management professionals can use independent and methodologically-transparent natural gas daily forward price updates and historical datasets for key portfolio risk management functions around risk disaggregation and decomposition, stress testing, and scenario building.
• Corporate finance can use longer-term gas market price-related valuations for strategic asset optimization, mergers and acquisitions, and infrastructure investment decisions.
• Risk management professionals can validate internally-generated forward curves, as well as use the information to calculate value-at-risk (VaR) earnings as risk (EaR), cash flow a risk (CFaR), or other daily risk management measurement and reporting functions.
• Middle and back offices can mark-to-market with confidence. They can model prices, calculate the current value of derivative instruments, forecast trends, and better evaluate physical and financial assets.
• Legal departments can resolve legal or contractual disputes through the provision of standardized and industry-adopted independent valuations.

Features

Platts M2M–Gas offers two different types of products, including:

• Daily North American gas 36-month forward curve assessments that are based on direct market activity and improved by Platts’ proprietary models wherever there is insufficient market activity.
• Monthly 20-year forward curves for the North American Natural Gas market that are based on the most current regional forward assessments.

Platts M2M-Gas is the industry's most complete natural gas market-based forwards solution for long-term energy contract valuation.

North American Gas 36-Month Forwards*

Platts M2M-Gas provides market-based, 36-month gas forwards using Platts’ proprietary models wherever market activity is limited.

North American Gas 20-Year Forwards**

Platts also provides regional price assessments for natural gas that extend out 20 years.

*Delivered daily

** Delivered monthly

Hub Coverage

Subscription Add-on

Market Data – Natural Gas

Upgrade your subscription to include Market Data - Natural Gas. With one click of the mouse, you will have access to the latest gas price assessments in a data-point format that is easy to import and analyze. Market Data - Natural Gas also provides:

• End-of-day assessments
• Third-party data
• Rolling 45-day historical database for key assessments

This is the most efficient and reliable way to receive Platts’ industry-standard benchmark assessments. For further information, please contact Platts Sales.

Costs

For more information about the price of this product, please contact your nearest Platts office. Many clients purchase multiple subscriptions to ensure their entire staff has access to Platts’ information. We will work with you to ensure that your staff is appropriately licensed, the correct discount levels is received, and our distribution methods meet your specific needs.

Basic Delivery

You can receive M2M-Gas on your PC via Platts’ proprietary platform Platts on the Net or over EMIS. EMIS is a browser-based platform incorporating an easy and intuitive navigation scheme, including user-defined layouts and an improved search engine.

Delivery Partners

Platts partners play a critical role to help ensure your company's success. We are pleased to have cooperative partnerships with the world's leading data delivery and analysis companies to help you extend the value of the information we provide throughout your organization. Please contact your nearest Platts office to discover whether you can access M2M-Gas through your existing vendor's delivery platform.

Multiple-user Subscriptions

Many clients purchase multiple subscriptions to ensure their entire staff has access to Platts information. We will work with you to make certain our distribution methods meet your specific needs. For details, contact your nearest Platts office.