據原油新聞2021年4月5日迪拜報道，在阿聯酋在一個新交易所開始交易旗艦穆爾班原油以后差不多一個月，為了吸引更多的參與者，把阿曼原油期貨合同列入交易名單的迪拜商品交易所（DME）日前推出了一個新的交易平臺，允許數種中東原油等級在這個平臺上進行交易。

DME在4月5日發表的一份聲明中表示，DME推出了替代原油生態系統(ACE)，這是“一個新的雙邊交易平臺，使參與者能夠通過交易所交易多種原油等級。”

這個交易平臺將向所有參與者開放，并將為交易商提供機會，以DME阿曼含硫原油基準期貨交易迪拜原油、上扎庫姆原油、穆爾班原油、巴士拉輕質原油、巴士拉重質原油、沙欣原油和阿曼原油。上扎庫姆原油和穆爾班原油是阿布扎比國家石油公司（ADNOC）生產的四種原油中的兩種，而巴士拉輕質原油和巴士拉重質原油則是伊拉克生產的。沙欣原油是一種卡塔爾原油。

DME表示：“這一新功能使中東原油參與者能夠在平臺上執行多種原油等級(OTC)交易，以區別于DME阿曼期貨。”

DME的新交易平臺是在新成立的阿布扎比洲際交易所(IFAD)推出之后推出的。3月29日，穆爾班原油期貨合約開始在IFAD交易。

洲際交易所、ADNOC和其他9家能源公司推出了IFAD和穆爾班原油期貨合約，旨在創建一個新的中東原油基準，主要用于銷往亞洲的原油。

李峻 編譯自 原油新聞

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.