Crude Oil
Giving You the Complete Crude Picture Since 1909
Designed for industry professionals and investors our Crude package offers invaluable data and insights through industry benchmark price assessments, real-time news reporting and expert analysis. Our forecasts and analytical tools are crafted to provide you a deeper understanding of market trends, while our forward curves for key trading hubs give you a clear view of future market expectations.
Whether you’re strategizing investments, analyzing market dynamics, or making informed trading decisions, our comprehensive suite empowers you to navigate the complexities of the crude oil market with confidence. Elevate your strategy and performance with the precision and depth of our offering.
Ideal For
Traders
- Price assessments and forecasts to make informed trading decisions, capitalizing on market movements.
- Leverage robust forward curves and analytical tools to assess risk and implement hedging strategies, protecting against price volatility.
- Identify price differentials between regions or products to execute arbitrage trades.
Procurement
- Employ benchmark price assessments to negotiate favourable contract terms with suppliers, ensuring cost effectiveness.
- Use expert analysis and forecasts to anticipate market shifts, securing supplies before price hikes or shortages occur.
Strategic Planners
- Utilize market forecasts and analysis into strategic planning, aligning long-term goals with expected market conditions.
- Get diverse market insights for scenario planning with AltView, preparing your organisation for various market conditions.
- Make informed decisions on resource allocation, prioritizing investments based on market insights.
C-Suite
- Leverage comprehensive market insights to guide strategic decisions, aligning business goals with market realities.
- Stay ahead of competitors by using in-depth analysis and forecasts to anticipate market trends and adjust business strategies accordingly.
- Use authoritative market data to support communications with investors, building confidence in the company's market positioning and strategy.
Coverage Areas
- EMEA
- North America
- APAC
- LATAM
- Global
Crude Oil Capabilities
Industry-Leading Price Benchmarks
Platts Price assessments and industry leading benchmarks, including Dated Brent, Dubai, Japanese domestic and AGS.
Comprehensive Market Data
Full reporting of market activity and transactional data with full history.
Real-time Information
Real-time information on crude oil spreads, trade updates, industry officials’ commentary and much more.
Daily Market Coverage
Daily market reports covering global oil market changes and fundamentals.
Global & Regional Insights
Monthly and quarterly insights into global and regional crude oil impacts and trends.
Short-Term Price Forecasts
2-year crude oil price outlooks updated monthly taking into consideration the latest market developments.
Expert Insights
Detailed reports on supply/demand dynamics, corporate updates, governmental policies, exploration and technological advancements across Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa, and the Americas.
Alternative Market Perspective
A second independent house view that asks, ‘What if?’ produced by an independent team with their own assumptions and interpretations of data, allowing for lateral thinking and the consideration of alternative realities.
Long-term Outlooks
Long-term outlooks (25 years) for crude oil and condensate demand, production, and trade.
Solutions We Offer
Crude Oil
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Crude Oil Market Data
Our crude price assessments have provided a basis for trade across commodities, and the world for decades with many going on to become industry benchmarks.
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Crude Oil Market Insights
We’ve long been synonymous with timely and insightful crude market news and reports, delivered by the industry’s largest team of specialists around the globe. Whether you are selling, buying or trading crude or refined products, our Market insights will provide you with the critical information you need to act confidently.
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Oil Risk Market Data
The Oil markets generate plenty of uncertainties, however here at S&P Global Commodity Insights by applying our extensive spot price history and proprietary quantitative techniques, we can offer an independent verifiable source of data to help you validate valuations and better align risk tolerance with business strategy.
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Market Data
Understand the market conditions through the numbers. Wherever your focus is within the energy and commodities markets, our daily Platts price assessments, data, and tools help you act with confidence today, so you're ready to make an impact tomorrow.
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Find Opportunities
Be ready for anything
Trading and investment opportunities are everywhere. But to see them, you need an up-to-date view of the market. We're an independent provider of proprietary price assessments, with data delivered the way you need it so you can act quickly and make more informed decisions in today's physicals and futures markets.
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Essential Benefits
Your go-to source for essential market data for confident business decisions
- Consistent engagement across the market
- Machine and experts for more relatable insights
- Independent and proprietary data
- Methodologies that reflect their markets
- Compliant assessments for total peace of mind
- Transparent and detailed methodologies
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What We Offer
Expert insight
Our experts are incredibly passionate about what they do, and it shows in the quality of the insight we provide you. That's why it's used by key energy players, governments, and financial institutions around the world.
Numbers without nonsense
S&P Global Commodity Insights give you up-to-date prices for the energy and commodities markets to use to your best advantage. The extensive historical data allows you to make your own analysis and determine the trading and investment strategy that’s right for you.
Your data delivered your way
With flexible data delivery options, you can access our content on the platform of your choosing via FTP, API, PEA, Energy Studio: Impact, or Platts Connect.
Market Insights
Stay ahead with, insights and analysis for the commodity markets. Examining global influences on commodity prices. Granular shifts in local supply and demand. Our essential range of tools can help you see it all. Because with effective market analysis, you can cover more ground and get broader, integrated view of the markets.
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Integrated Intelligence
Stay ahead with interconnected intelligence
Energy and commodity markets don't work in isolation. And neither do our analytics. At S&P Global Commodity Insights, we use a data-driven, bottom-up methodology to build an integrated offering.
Our analytics spans real-time, near-term, short- and long-term outlooks. This gives you a complete picture of market movements across the supply chain so you can understand how they interact and confidently navigate to the future. -
Stay Ahead
See what's coming next
We provide and integrated, global perspective, setting us apart from others. Our market solutions, forecast and analytics give you a more complete view of the markets so you can cover more ground and look ahead to see what's coming next for your business.
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What We Offer
Integrated analysis
Detailed coverage across the value chain for every major global commodity so you can get deep understanding of the interconnected nature of complex markets.
Innovative solutions
Dynamic analytical tools, like Platts Connect, and integrated datasets lets you access innovations that will help put you at the forefront of trend analysis.
Cutting-edge technologies
Access continually expanding, unique and advanced data collected from satellites so you can keep pace with the evolving commodity landscape.
Local expertise on a global scale
Our team of analysts are located around the globe assuring they are well-connected to regional markets and market participants. And you can benefit from this world of insight.
Your data delivered your way
With flexible data delivery options, you can access our content on the platform of your choosing via FTP, API, PEA, Energy Studio: Impact, or Platts Connect.
Risk Market Data
We provide market-based forward curves to help manage exposure to energy and commodity price volatility. If there's one thing you can be certain of, it's market uncertainty. S&P Global Commodity Insights Risk Solutions give you an independent, verifiable source of data to help you manage risk across your business.
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Evaluate Risk
Convert risk into opportunity
The markets may feel uncertain, but with that uncertainty comes opportunity. With our Essential Intelligence, you can confidently assess market values of assets and liabilities, protect from overexposure, and better align risk tolerance with your business strategy.
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What We Offer
An independent source
Editorially observed and assessed Platts Forward Curves (PFC) that are produced by global teams of correspondents dedicated to reporting on the energy market.
Stay ahead of the curve
Get a clearer view of illiquid markets with our quantitatively derived forward curves. They combine the market knowledge and expertise of our SPGCI editorial team with quantitative techniques to give you sight of changing market dynamics.
Your data delivered your way
With flexible data delivery options, you can access our content on the platform of your choosing via FTP, API, PEA, Energy Studio: Impact, or Platts Connect.
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Essential Benefits
Daily workflows are made easier
- Validate internally derived curves
- Mark-to-market your portfolio to determine profit and loss.
- Calculate key risk metrics such as Value-at-Risk.
- Report the fair value of financial instruments.
- Manage counterparty credit exposure and collateral requirements.
Key Price Assessment
Channel Partners & Delivery Ecosystem
Get the breadth and depth of market data, insights and risk from S&P Global Commodity Insights delivered when and how you need it.
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