Argus and Spimex Launch Oil Product Netbacks for Three Vast Areas in Russia

Published: April 13, 2016 |

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Argus and Spimex have launched netback price indexes for refined products in Russia in line with recommendations by the country’s federal anti-monopoly service FAS.

The new indexes developed jointly by Argus and Spimex are derived from Argus’ assessments for oil products prices in northwest Europe, the Mediterranean market and Asia-Pacific that are netted back to Russian refinery gate prices by subtracting export duty, freight, loading costs, and railway, pipeline or river transportation and associated costs. These indexes, together with exchange and OTC indexes published by Spimex, are designed to establish reliable price indicators and increase transparency in the Russian refined products market.

Argus and Spimex began publishing the netback indexes for regular and premium motor gasoline, summer diesel, jet fuel and fuel oil on April 4. The netback price indexes were developed for three vast Russian federal multi-region territories — European Russia, the Urals and Siberia, and the Russian far east and Siberia. For this reason they are known as “territorial” indexes.

“We are delighted to be able to produce new indexes with Spimex that add to the transparency of the Russian refined products market. We are committed to the further long-term development of our reporting on Russian commodity markets, having had a presence in the country for over 20 years,” said Argus Media Executive Chairman and publisher Adrian Binks.

“The launch of the new indexes conforms to Spimex’s primary objectives — development of market pricing and creation of reliable market indicators for the most significant commodities. We hope that this step that we make together with Argus will allow for better performance of our customers’ tasks of building sales channels and market analysis, and will meet the government’s requirements concerning control over the market situation,” said Spimex President Alexey Rybnikov.

Indexes published in the daily Argus Russian Netbacks report are used as a basis for calculating the territorial netback indexes. Volume-weighted averages are calculated based on the netbacks at specific refineries, taking into account the volume of oil products sold by these refineries on Spimex.

Russian domestic market prices are often set at around parity with export values, because the country is one of the major global exporters of oil products.

Argus Russian Netbacks contains detailed daily calculations of export netbacks for crude, gasoline, naphtha, diesel, gasoil, jet fuel, vacuum gasoil, fuel oil, LPG, methane and base oils for all key Russian producers on major pipeline, rail and river routes. Argus calculates export netbacks taking into account key exporter costs, such as transportation and loading of standard cargoes.

About Argus Media
Argus is an independent media organization with more than 750 full time staff. It is headquartered in London and has offices in each of the world’s principal commodity centers. Its main activities comprise publishing market reports containing price assessments, market commentary and news, and business intelligence reports that analyse market and industry trends.

Argus is a leading provider of data on prices and fundamentals, news, analysis, consultancy services and conferences for the global crude, oil products, natural gas, electricity, coal, emissions, bioenergy, fertilizer, petrochemical, metals and transportation industries. Data provided by Argus are widely used for indexation of physical trade. Companies, governments and international agencies use Argus information for analysis and planning purposes.

Argus has 21 offices globally, including London, Houston, Washington, New York, Calgary, Rio de Janeiro, Singapore, Dubai, Beijing, Tokyo, Sydney, Moscow, Astana, San Francisco and other key centers of the commodity industries. Argus was founded in 1970 and is a privately held UK-registered company.

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About Spimex
Saint Petersburg International Mercantile Exchange (Spimex) is the largest commodity exchange in Russia. Spimex organizes trade in the petroleum products, oil, gas LPG, timber and construction materials markets, as well as in the derivatives market. Spimex works towards creation of a transparent mechanism of fair pricing on basic types of commodities.

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