Argus Media

Founded in 1970, Petroleum Argus is the world's leading independent energy market price reporting service. The Petroleum Argus spot market price assessments provide complete international coverage of the world's oil trade and are widely used as benchmarks for sale and purchase contracts. Argus has a broad range of newsletters in which the company's experienced team of journalists report international industry developments and analyse emerging trends in the energy sector. Specialist reports using original market sources contain vital information for anyone interested in the oil industry. With its comprehensive database, which includes its time series price assessments; fundamentals data on global supply, demand and stocks; and a unique database which records prices of confirmed actual deals, Petroleum Argus provides the most comprehensive energy reporting and analysis service available.

Platts

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.

Oilspace

OILspace supply chain and enterprise content management solutions run through over 400 companies of all sizes and roles within the energy supply chain. Our clients refine, market, ship and trade globally and rely on our expertise in complex physical oil, natural gas and petrochemical markets. We’re an applications developer and integrator with a proven track record for delivering solutions that grow with your business and produce measurable returns-on-investment (ROI) through smart, adaptive, component web-based applications.

A unified electronic marketplace of the Belarusian State Company for Oil and Chemicals has been created to optimize the export of oil, chemical, and petrochemical products for the companies of the system of the «Belneftekhim» concern.

A special software product, eTrading System, has been developed to hold electronic auctions. Access to the marketplace, registration, and participation in auctions is performed via a Web browser.

Basic principles for holding e-auctions are creating a favorable environment for non-priviledged competition, general requirements and merits for objective assessment for all tenderers, guaranteeing equal rights and responsibilities to the participants, and enforcement of tender commitments.

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