To meet the need for a more connected view of what is driving natural gas and power markets in the Americas, S&P Global Commodity Insights provides a broad product offering to accommodate every need. Our services, organized below by content type, provide access to market news, benchmark pricing and world-class analytics data, including short, medium, and long-term forecasts, to support market participants based in North and South America. If your need is reflected in any of our common use cases below, get in touch with us by filling out the form here
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Managing methane emissions is one of the most effective ways to curb the acceleration of global warming, and achieving significant reductions today will have a significant effect on atmospheric warming potential over the next 10 to 20 years.
As the world has become more aware of the dangers presented by escalating climate change, it has become increasingly clear that real, measured approaches to carbon accounting are critical across a number of different industries.
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The highly intuitive and interconnected web and the mobile portal provides clients with an all-in-one digital experience across Platts Benchmark price assessments, news, and analytics insights across 13 commodities.
The comprehensive coverage across prices, supply and demand flow, and forward curves from Platts can be accessed instantly via API, Streaming, or FTP channels, helping you to develop an actionable understanding of what is truly driving price changes. With a single source of data that can be integrated into your own, you can surface surprising new connections, eliminate blind spots and make more informed and timely decisions.
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S&P Global Commodity Insights provides critical market data, price assessments, industry news and analysis to enable effective decision-making in every time zone. Our unbiased perspective helps you understand shifting fundamentals, recognize opportunities, model risk, and plan with confidence.
Platts Market Data delivers the numbers and transparency you need to accurately gauge your markets. We offer a wide variety of price assessments to help you understand the fair and transactional value of natural gas (including Henry Hub, Waha, Houston Ship Channel, and more) and electric power (including access to day-ahead and real-time ISO prices). With access to full historical data, you're equipped to leverage decades of robust benchmark data to make more informed decisions.
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We’re proud to offer the most robust view of Americas natural gas and electric power in the market, with research, real-time news, and visualization tools that deliver expert analysis on fundamentals and regional trade trends in the Americas. Commodity Insights’ comprehensive coverage of the North American and South American natural gas markets includes regional forecasts of supply, demand, and price, as well as data platforms that enable pipeline flow and production monitoring. For electric power, we provide reports and data sets that examine every aspect of the North American electricity market including developments in capacity, generation, demand, and cross-border flows. Speak with a sales specialist today to learn more about our solutions.
In a market environment that generates plenty of uncertainties, Platts Risk Market Data for Americas Gas and Power markets offers an independent, verifiable source of data to help you validate valuations and better align risk tolerance with business strategy. 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.
Platts Gas and Power curves are transparent and produced independently, providing you with market-based forward curves and supporting analytical data for key trading hubs. Platts Gas and Power curves are published based upon our use of Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) settlement data. This data, along with our extensive spot price history and proprietary quantitative techniques, enables us to provide standardized, granular forward curves for liquid and illiquid trading hubs alike.
The Methane Intensity Premium prices and emissions values will help provide a signal to the US gas market for how oil and gas production can be quantified with airborne measurements while attaching an uplift to in-basin pricing.
The methane intensity calculations and corresponding Methane intensity premiums sit in with Platts Americas Gas and Power services, where they can be used in conjunction with our existing suite of US natural gas assessments.
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S&P Global Commodity Insights has partnered with Xpansiv to produce a daily assessment of Methane Performance Certificates (MPCs) - a certificate traded on the spot market that represents avoided methane emissions from the production of a specific volume of natural gas. Platts is publishing its daily assessment as both dollars per MPC ($/MPC) and dollars per metric ton equivalent ($/mtCO2e).
The Methane Performance Certificate (MPC) is traded separately from the physical natural gas, and will provide an additional way to generate capital through lower methane intensity in natural gas production. Natural gas produced with a methane emissions intensity at or below the Platts threshold of 0.10% will be eligible to be issued MPCs. Platts will review the methane intensity threshold annually, as new Subpart W data typically becomes available around the month of September and may modify the threshold at its discretion.
Our MPC methodology is the first to utilize empirical process and emissions data collected directly from natural gas production facilities, rather than relying upon estimated subpart W data. MPCs enable producers, commercial, industrial, and utility consumers to differentiate and accurately price cleanly produced, or responsibly sourced natural gas. The industry average will receive 800 MPCs per 1,000 MMBtu of production.
Platts Methane Intensity Premiums (MIPs) calculate the cost of bringing the methane intensity of one MMBtu of average natural gas production per production basin to 0.
We are publishing three methane intensity calculations of 19 natural gas production basins in North America on a monthly basis as:
The Methane Intensity Premium prices and emissions values will help provide a signal to the US gas market for how oil and gas production can be quantified with airborne measurements while attaching an uplift to in-basin pricing.
The methane intensity calculations and corresponding Methane intensity premiums sit in with Platts Americas Gas and Power services, where they can be used in conjunction with our existing suite of US natural gas assessments.
To meet the fast-growing demand for information on what is driving the price of LNG, S&P Global Commodity Insights delivers news, analysis, data sets and analytical tools for this market globally.
Platts Market Data – LNG: our industry benchmark price assessments
Platts Market Insight – LNG: our news, analysis, forecasts, fundamental data and analytical tools
Coal’s position as a key element of the fuel mix cannot be denied. To support an integrated view of our energy markets, S&P Global Commodity Insights provides a full suite of data and insights products:
Platts Market Data – Coal: our industry benchmark price assessments
Platts Market Insight – Coal: news, analysis, forecasts and fundamental data
