Refined Products · Daily Forward Curve
Arab Gulf Naphtha Forward Curve — Arab Gulf swaps
- CommodityScope Indicative Assessment
- CS Series CS-FWD-AG-NAPH
- daily cadence · Arab Gulf swaps · USD/mt
- Oil Products & Physical Crude Methodology v1.0
The curve by contract month is first. The M1 history chart and statistics follow. The latest midpoint, range and change are in the card below.
Forward curve — 21 October 2026
All tenors published for this series on the assessment date, in USD/mt. Mids are plotted by contract month; bid and offer are listed where they are available.
| Tenor | Contract | Bid | Offer | Mid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| M1 | Nov26 | — | — | 759.84 |
| M2 | Dec26 | — | — | 726.32 |
The highlighted M1 row is the tenor charted and summarised below. Other tenors are shown for this date only.
Latest M1 Mid
- Basis
- Arab Gulf swaps
- Unit
- USD/mt
- Frequency
- Daily
- CS Series
- CS-FWD-AG-NAPH
M1 History
USD/mt · Calendar gaps and contract rolls are not interpolated. Arab Gulf swaps · · M1 history
Price Changes and Historical Range
Computed statistics are CommodityScope calculations from the series history.
Monthly M1 Averages
Average, minimum and maximum of assessment midpoints in each calendar month. These are not the daily assessment range. Incomplete latest months are marked month to date.
| Month | Average mid | Min mid | Max mid | Observations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2026Month to date | 706.46 | 673.64 | 759.84 | 15 |
| September 2026 | 705.98 | 655.08 | 765.61 | 22 |
| August 2026 | 673.74 | 611.13 | 727.16 | 20 |
| July 2026 | 668.21 | 577.29 | 735.34 | 7 |
| June 2026 | 629.01 | 547.91 | 723.08 | 18 |
| May 2026 | 814.37 | 674.54 | 889.74 | 17 |
| April 2026 | 820.50 | 736.05 | 946.76 | 18 |
| March 2026 | 822.87 | 608.80 | 981.44 | 21 |
| February 2026 | 544.27 | 516.67 | 563.47 | 17 |
| January 2026 | 528.07 | 517.89 | 537.92 | 3 |
Recent M1 Assessments
Latest CommodityScope daily assessments for the defined market basis. Dates without an available assessment are omitted. The chart above is interactive; this table is the dated history.
| Date | Bid | Offer | Mid | Δ vs previous |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | — | — | 759.84 | +1.63 |
| 2026-10-20 | — | — | 758.21 | +14.73 |
| 2026-10-19 | — | — | 743.48 | +17.02 |
| 2026-10-16 | — | — | 726.46 | +22.81 |
| 2026-10-15 | — | — | 703.65 | -8.25 |
| 2026-10-14 | — | — | 711.90 | +9.44 |
| 2026-10-13 | — | — | 702.46 | -3.52 |
| 2026-10-12 | — | — | 705.98 | +31.98 |
| 2026-10-09 | — | — | 674.00 | -9.69 |
| 2026-10-08 | — | — | 683.69 | -18.62 |
| 2026-10-07 | — | — | 702.31 | +17.38 |
| 2026-10-06 | — | — | 684.93 | +1.40 |
| 2026-10-05 | — | — | 683.53 | +9.89 |
| 2026-10-02 | — | — | 673.64 | -9.17 |
| 2026-10-01 | — | — | 682.81 | +23.18 |
| 2026-09-30 | — | — | 659.63 | +4.55 |
| 2026-09-29 | — | — | 655.08 | -21.54 |
| 2026-09-28 | — | — | 676.62 | +1.96 |
| 2026-09-25 | — | — | 674.66 | -13.80 |
| 2026-09-24 | — | — | 688.46 | +1.27 |
| 2026-09-23 | — | — | 687.19 | +3.12 |
| 2026-09-22 | — | — | 684.07 | +9.24 |
| 2026-09-21 | — | — | 674.83 | -10.19 |
| 2026-09-18 | — | — | 685.02 | -25.66 |
| 2026-09-17 | — | — | 710.68 | -36.66 |
| 2026-09-16 | — | — | 747.34 | +5.97 |
| 2026-09-15 | — | — | 741.37 | -24.24 |
| 2026-09-14 | — | — | 765.61 | +8.53 |
| 2026-09-11 | — | — | 757.08 | +41.04 |
| 2026-09-10 | — | — | 716.04 | — |
What This Arab Gulf swaps Price Represents
Daily Arab Gulf naphtha swap values by contract month in USD/mt; the page history follows the M1 tenor.
Compare With
Each comparison states why the series are related and whether the latest values can be subtracted directly (same unit, currency and assessment date). Where they cannot, the values are shown side by side without a difference.
| Series | Why compare | Latest | Difference (this − other) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Naphtha — Arab Gulf FOB Arab Gulf · USD/mt · daily | Physical FOB Arab Gulf naphtha assessment that this instrument references.
| 721.03 21 Oct 2026 | not directly comparable |
| Naphtha Japan Forward Singapore paper · USD/mt · daily | CFR Japan naphtha swaps in the same unit: destination-side curve. | 967.00 21 Oct 2026 | -207.16 |
Related Naphtha Forward Prices
CommodityScope Assessment Basis
This is the CommodityScope series definition for the published midpoint and assessment range. Characteristics that are not part of this basis are not inferred.
- Product
- Naphtha Forward
- Product quality
- Arab Gulf swaps · · M1 history
- Location basis
- Arab Gulf swaps
- Parcel basis
- Typical physical cargo as transacted on the stated location basis. CommodityScope does not fix a standard parcel tonnage.
- Delivery / loading period
- Not fixed in the published series basis.
- Assessment window
- CommodityScope daily assessment dated as of the published assessment date.
- Currency / unit
- USD/mt
- Normalization
- Inputs used for the midpoint and the assessment range are considered only after they can be expressed on this series basis and unit. Cross-unit values are not converted on the public site and are not mixed into this series.
Specification · stated in the assessment basis
- Tenors as defined for this series.
- Arab Gulf swaps · · M1 history
Basis: Arab Gulf swaps
- Paper/swap values are financially settled forward prices for a contract month, not physical cargo transactions.
- The Arab Gulf basis refers to loadings from refineries and terminals inside the Persian/Arabian Gulf (e.g. Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, Qatar), west of the Strait of Hormuz.
Unit: USD/mt
- Same unit as the underlying physical product (USD/bbl or USD/mt).
How to use this series, and what it is not for
How to use this series
- Read the curve shape (M1 vs M2) as the market’s time structure; compare M1 with the physical price of the same product and basis.
What it is not suitable for
- Treating a swap value as a physical cargo price.
- Comparing swaps of different products or units.
Product and market references
- CommodityScope Market Assessment Methodology
- ICC Incoterms® 2020 rules (FOB, CFR, CIF, FCA definitions) — Meaning of the delivery terms used in the basis column.
Assessment, assessment range and computed statistics: CommodityScope. The assessment range is an uncertainty interval around the midpoint, not a bid/offer spread. See the Oil Products & Physical Crude Methodology v1.0 for assessment basis, calculation principles and data policy.