Argus Launches North American Natural Gas Market Report

HOUSTON, Oct. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Argus, the international energy price
reporting agency, today launches Argus Natural Gas Americas, a new daily
publication covering the spot markets in North American natural gas.

The addition of natural gas means Argus now provides pricing intelligence for
all the major energy markets in North America. Argus is already a leading
provider of pricing data in European natural gas, power, coal, biomass and
emissions markets.

"Natural gas in North America has been a gap in the Argus portfolio for too
long," Argus Media's chairman and chief executive Adrian Binks says. "Our
clients have been asking us to enter this market, and we have listened."

Argus Natural Gas Americas publishes daily prices for more than 75 hubs in the
US and Canada, using transactional data provided by market participants to
calculate volume-weighted average indexes. Bidweek indices are also calculated
each month at over 60 hubs. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Ferc)
approved Argus natural gas indexes for use in jurisdictional tariffs on 27
August 2009.

The report features regional commentary, national market overviews and
market-moving news. Charts and graphs offer an at-a-glance view of key
information such as national storage, pipeline capacity, US daily supply and
demand.

Learn more about Argus Natural Gas Americas, its methodology and the rest of
Argus' global natural gas suite at www.argusmedia.com/gas.

For further information contact: Euan Craik, Argus chief executive Americas,
euan.craik@argusmedia.com, +1 713 968 0000

About Argus
Argus Media is a leading provider of price assessments, business intelligence
and market data on the global natural gas, coal, electricity, oil, emissions
and transportation industries. It is headquartered in London and has offices
in Houston, Washington, Jersey City, Portland, Calgary, Johannesburg, Dubai,
Singapore, Tokyo, Beijing, Sydney, Moscow, Astana, Kiev and other key centres
of the energy industry. Argus was founded in 1970 and is a privately held
UK-registered company. Learn more at www.argusmedia.com.

SOURCE Argus Media

Euan Craik, Argus chief executive Americas, +1-713-968-0000,
euan.craik@argusmedia.com