Dubai, 21 January 2010

2009 was a positive year for the DME characterised by four significant developments. Firstly, liquidity has increased with trading volumes achieving a 69% year-on-year increase and average daily volumes approaching 3,000 lots in the last quarter.

Secondly, the DME continues to strengthen its reputation as the largest physically-delivered contract in the world and achieved a record delivery of 11.6 million barrels in September 2009.

Thirdly, the adoption of DME Oman as the basis for setting the Official Selling Price (OSP) for Dubai crude by the Dubai Department of Petroleum Affairs in June 2009 further reinforces the growing acceptance of the DME Oman contract as the third global crude oil pricing benchmark. And fourthly, DME contracts were migrated seamlessly onto CME Globex® thereby allowing market participants to access the world’s three crude oil benchmarks on a single electronic platform.

The industry support we have received to date has been critical to our continued development. We encourage you to share your thoughts and feedback with us as we work to cement DME Oman as the premier crude oil benchmark in the East of Suez supply / demand basin.

2009: A Year of Significant Developments

• Volume growth: 69% year-on-year (YoY) growth in volumes saw trading approach average daily volume (ADV) of 3,000 lots in the last quarter actively traded by more than 50 companies

• Physical delivery: an average 8.7 million barrels per month delivered through the Exchange with more than 25 companies participating in physical delivery

• Dubai pricing: Dubai Department of Petroleum Affairs (DPA) announced the adoption of an explicitly DME Oman linked Official Selling Price (OSP)

• CME Globex©: DME Oman Contract moved seamlessly onto the CME Globex© platform

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