阿联酋DME推出新交易平台以吸引更多参与者

据原油新闻2021年4月5日迪拜报道，在阿联酋在一个新交易所开始交易旗舰穆尔班原油以后差不多一个月，为了吸引更多的参与者，把阿曼原油期货合同列入交易名单的迪拜商品交易所（DME）日前推出了一个新的交易平台，允许数种中东原油等级在这个平台上进行交易。

DME在4月5日发表的一份声明中表示，DME推出了替代原油生态系统(ACE)，这是“一个新的双边交易平台，使参与者能够通过交易所交易多种原油等级。”

这个交易平台将向所有参与者开放，并将为交易商提供机会，以DME阿曼含硫原油基准期货交易迪拜原油、上扎库姆原油、穆尔班原油、巴士拉轻质原油、巴士拉重质原油、沙欣原油和阿曼原油。上扎库姆原油和穆尔班原油是阿布扎比国家石油公司（ADNOC）生产的四种原油中的两种，而巴士拉轻质原油和巴士拉重质原油则是伊拉克生产的。沙欣原油是一种卡塔尔原油。

DME表示：“这一新功能使中东原油参与者能够在平台上执行多种原油等级(OTC)交易，以区别于DME阿曼期货。”

DME的新交易平台是在新成立的阿布扎比洲际交易所(IFAD)推出之后推出的。3月29日，穆尔班原油期货合约开始在IFAD交易。

洲际交易所、ADNOC和其他9家能源公司推出了IFAD和穆尔班原油期货合约，旨在创建一个新的中东原油基准，主要用于销往亚洲的原油。

李峻 编译自 原油新闻

原文如下：

UAE's DME launches new trading platform to attract more participants

The Dubai Mercantile Exchange, which lists the Oman crude futures contract, has launched a new platform that allows the trading of several Middle East crude grades in a bid to attract more participants -- nearly a month after the UAE began trading flagship Murban crude futures on a new exchange.

DME has launched Alternative Crude Ecosystem, or ACE, "a new bilateral trading platform to enable participants to trade multiple crude grades through the exchange," it said in an April 5 statement.

The platform will be available for all participants and will offer traders 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, it added. Upper Zakum and Murban are two of four crudes produced by Abu Dhabi National Oil Co, while Basrah Light and Basrah Heavy are produced by Iraq. Al Shaheen is a Qatari crude grade.

"This new functionality allows Middle East crude participants a way to execute multiple Over the Counter (OTC) crude grades as differentials against DME Oman futures," DME said.

DME's new platform follows the launch of ICE Futures Abu Dhabi, or IFAD, a new exchange on which Murban futures contract began trading on March 29.

The Intercontinental Exchange, ADNOC and nine other energy companies launched IFAD and the Murban futures contract in a bid to create a new Middle East crude benchmark, mainly for oil headed to Asia.