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International energy futures and commodities exchange Dubai Mercantile Exchange (DME) has launched the Alternative Crude Ecosystem (ACE), a new bilateral trading platform to enable participants to trade multiple crude grades through the exchange.
The move comes days after Abu Dhabi started trading Murban crude futures contracts on ICE Futures Abu Dhabi, offering an alternative benchmark for the to Dubai crude, operated by S&P Global Platts, and Oman crude futures traded on the DME.
DME, which is based in Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), will offer participants the opportunity to trade bilateral barrels of Dubai, Upper Zakum, Murban, Basrah Light, Basrah Heavy, Al Shaheen and Oman versus the DME Oman Sour Crude Benchmark futures. This new functionality allows traders a way to execute multiple over the counter (OTC) crude grades as differentials against DME Oman futures, the exchange said in a statement Monday.
The Oman crude futures, launched in 2007 by the DME, is the Asian crude oil benchmark pricing a majority of sour crude oil trading East of Suez.
Raid Al-Salami, Managing Director, DME said: “ACE is a unique platform where it combines Futures and OTC in one transparent window for the very first time, offering all participants opportunities to optimize their trading activities and manage their exposure across multiple crude grades.”
Salim Al-Aufi, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Energy and Minerals, Oman said: “With the launch of ACE, national oil companies across the region will have the opportunity to discover the fair price for grades based on the DME Oman benchmark.”
(Writing by Brinda Darasha; editing by Daniel Luiz)
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