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Aspect partners with the key energy market news and pricing indices in every region of the world. Aspect subscribers rely on these industry benchmarks to make minute-by-minute financial decisions.

The IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) operates the leading market for trading Brent crude futures-- the key benchmark for pricing crude oil produced and consumed outside of the United States-- as well as a range of refined oil products. ICE also operates the primary market for trading cleared OTC Henry Hub contracts - the most actively traded natural gas hub in North America.

Established for over 130 years and located in the heart of The City of London, the London Metal Exchange is the world's premier non-ferrous metals market. It offers futures and options contracts for aluminium, copper, nickel, tin, zinc and lead plus two regional aluminium alloy contracts. In 2005 the Exchange launched the world's first futures contracts for plastics; for polypropylene and linear low density polyethylene, with the introduction of regional plastics contracts in 2007. A new steel billet contract will be fully launched on 28 April 2008.

The LME is a highly liquid market and in 2007 achieved volumes of 93 million lots, equivalent to $9,500 billion annually and between $35-45 billion on an average business day. Despite its London location the LME is a global market with an international membership and with more than 95% of its business coming from overseas.

Platts, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., is the world's largest and most trusted provider of energy information and marketing services for the oil, electricity, natural gas, petrochemical, coal, nuclear power, shipping, metals and bandwidth industries. Platts products range from real-time and Internet-based services to newsletters, market reports, databases, electronic directories, magazines, conferences, research services, geospatial tools and consulting. Every day, global energy markets base more than $10 billion of trading activity and term contract sales on Platts price assessments. Platts delivers timely, accurate and insightful energy intelligence when you want it, how you want it and wherever you need it, allowing you to turn reliable information into profitable action.

Dow Jones Newswires' award-winning content includes economic, financial and market-moving political news from around the world. It is the world's leading independent, real-time financial news provider, delivering more than 8,000 news items a day to more than 330,000 financial professionals in 66 countries.

In addition to this, millions of people access selected Dow Jones Newswires content through various corporate Internet sites, electronic exchanges, corporate intranets and business information services. Dow Jones Newswires provides real-time news services in ten languages.

In April 2003, Dow Jones Newswires was voted "News Provider of the Year" by market data and exchange professionals in the Market Data Awards, organised by the Risk Waters publication Inside Market Data. In August 2002, an independent survey of nearly half of all U.K. dealing-room professionals named Dow Jones Newswires the "Best Financial News Service". Dow Jones Newswires achieved the highest rating for speed of breaking news, reliability and breadth of reporting and overall customer satisfaction.

Founded in 1882, Dow Jones Newswires has more than 700 real-time editors and reporters. It is part of Dow Jones & Company's global news network of more than 1,600 news staff. Dow Jones Newswires also draws on the resources of several of its media partners including the Associated Press and Nikkei.

BBC Monitoring supplies news, information and comment gathered from the mass media around the world. Linguists and journalists operate around the clock to monitor more than 3,000 radio, TV, press, Internet and news agency sources, translating into English from up to 100 languages.

BBC Monitoring was created on the eve of World War II to help Britain track foreign propaganda. It has been a valuable source of information during subsequent upheavals, including the Cold War, the collapse of communism and more recent crises in the Gulf and in the Balkans.

FMC produces independent, neutral and accurate forward market curve data for the oil industry. It currently provides valuable price discovery for the most liquid benchmark crude oil and product grades traded in the Asian oil market. FMC was set up by all of the leading oil brokerage houses covering the Asian oil market from Singapore, Tokyo and London , whose combined curve data is the most robust mark-to-market standard available to the industry.

Since 1977, OPIS has been the source for U.S. wholesale petroleum prices and news. OPIS spot, wholesale and retail coverage is distributed via newsletters, Internet, email and handheld wireless services. OPIS' more than 40 editors and pricing experts track more than 70,000 rack prices for heating oil, gasoline, diesel and kerosene, and thousands of contract prices for jet fuel, LP-gas, residual fuel, and ethanol. More than 85,000 retail gasoline prices are also tracked daily. OPIS clients include the top oil companies, thousands of distributors, traders, government and commercial buyers of petroleum products in North America.

The Dubai Mercantile Exchange Limited (DME), a joint venture between Tatweer, a member of Dubai Holding, the New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc. (NYMEX) and the Oman Investment Fund (OIF) is the premier international energy futures and comodities exchange in the Middle East, uniquely positioned to provide price transparency and market liquidity for crude oil from the world's foremost oil producing and exporting region.

KORTES – leading Russian information company, active in monitoring, research and analysis of Russian domestic markets for crude, petroleum and petrochemical products, as well as in price monitoring (crude, petroleum and petrochemical products, processing costs); production and market statistics; market research of regional commodity markets, monoproduct markets; market situation reviews, oil companies, refiners and petrochemical producers profiles; references and dictionaries on the oil business.

Metal Registration Ltd is the leading independent provider of brand registration services to metal producers wishing to list their metal production on: NYMEX, COMEX, DGCX, LBMA, LME, SHFE, TOCOM. This Brand Registration Service ensures your brand application dossier meets the rules and procedures of the chosen Exchange or Market.

International Business House organises and administers professional excellence programmes and business services that help our clients advance in their fields. Specializing in working with the oil and gas industry, all programmes focus on the realities of global markets and contemporary technologies and techniques that specialists must master to survive and succeed in today’s global economy.

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