New York (Platts)--4Mar2010/116 pm EST/1816 GMT
Platts will launch on March 15, 2010, new forward curve assessments for Brent
outright price swaps, Brent swap time spreads, and swaps for cracks spreads
between Brent and a variety of refined oil products: naphtha, gasoil, jet
fuel, and fuel oil basis FOB Singapore. 

This launch will come ahead of the planned discontinuation of price
assessments of all Tapis swaps and Tapis-related crack swaps on March 31,
2010, the final date that Tapis-related curves will be published on Platts
Forward Curve Asia, an add-on to Platts Global Alert. 

The new assessments will be published on the pages listed below.

Please send all comments and questions to asia_crude@platts.com and
pricegroup@platts.com.

New Platts Global Alert pages from March 15, 2010:
PGA1630 - Platts Asia Brent Swaps assessments (outrights)
PGA1632 - Platts Asia Brent Swaps assessments (time spreads)
PGA1634 - Platts Asia Singapore Naphtha/Brent Crack Swaps
PGA1636 - Platts Asia Jet/Brent Crack Swaps
PGA1638 - Platts Asia Gasoil/Brent Crack Swaps
PGA1640 - Platts Asia 180CST Fuel Oil/Brent Crack Swaps
PGA1642 - Platts Asia 380CST Fuel Oil/Brent Crack Swaps 
 
Platts Global Alert pages to be discontinued from April 1, 2010:
PGA349 - Asian Crude Tapis Paper Swaps
PGA640 - Tapis Swaps (Asia)
PGA657 - Naphtha-Tapis crack swaps
PGA658 - Jet-Tapis crack swaps
PGA659 - Gasoil-Tapis crack swaps