Clearly defined and transparent methodologies are the backbone of Platts’ price assessment processes. Platt’s methodologies provide detailed descriptions and explanations of how we assess the market value of commodities so that customers and other interested parties understand those processes. In this section, we post documentation by commodity and region for all published price assessments and indices.
US petrochemicals methodology (as of May 2009)
Asian petrochemicals methodology (as of August 2009)
European petrochemicals methodology (as of August 2009)
Platts Asian Petrochemicalscan: code list (as of May 2009)
Platts Europe & Americas Petrochemical Scan: code list (as of May 2009)
Platts Polymerscan: code list (as of May 2009)
Platts Solvents Wire: code list (as of May 2009)
Guidelines for PCA 005 trading (as of August 2009)
Conversion factors
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