Americas product specifications (as of March 2008)
Crude oil methodology (as of March 2008)
Platts Daily Yield (as of January 2008)
Asia product specifications (as of January 2008)
European product specifications (as of January 2008)
Asia LPG methodology (as of September 2007)
China fuel oil methodology (as of September 2007)
Bunker fuels & tankers specifications (as of July 2007)
Americas crude oil specifications guidelines (as of January 2007)
Americas product specifications guidelines (as of January 2007)
Russian domestic market specifications (as of September 2006)
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European product specifications guidelines including LPG (as of October 2005)
Asia naphtha methodology (as of June 2004)
Редакторские правила и методологии Platts по европейским нефтепродуктам
Редакторские правила и методологии Platts по сырой нефти

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Руководство по методологии PFC-Freight
Руководство по методологии PFC-Oil

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