RIM Intelligence Co.

RIM Intelligence Co. established in 1984 is Japan's independent Oil Market Reporting Service. RIM provides up-to-date news on the Asia-Pacific and Arabian Gulf oil markets.

RIM supplies:

• RIM Crude (Spot crude oil price information) - This information service from Japan traces the latest spot crude oil trading in Asia. Reflects the assessments of the three world benchmark crudes (WTI, Brent, and Dubai) and the major 45 grades in the Asia-Pacific and Arabian Gulf markets. Coverage includes late-day Tokyo prices and end-of-day New York and London prices for WTI, Brent and Dubai, and futures prices from NYMEX and IPE.
• RIM Products (Oil product price information for Japan/Asia) - Coverage includes: end-of-day price assessments for product cargoes C&F Japan, FOB Singapore, FOB South Korea, and Arabian Gulf; in-depth commentaries on each market; futures prices from TOCOM Energy Futures; end-of-day marine fuel oil and diesel oil prices at major Far East ports; Japanese domestic spot product prices and commentaries, all spot cargo transactions in the region, product tender status and award reports, market news; and important statistics.
• RIM Bunker (Bunker oil price information) - Reflects bunker oil prices at 28 major ports around the world. The coverage includes: closing prices for marine fuel oil and diesel oil prices at 28 major bunkering ports, posted price adjustments, and commentaries on supply- demand conditions.
• RIM LPG (Report LP gas price information) - Provides daily price assessments and market commentaries on the following markets: from overseas FOB prices mainly in the Middle East, to domestic on-land rack prices: Arabian Gulf, CFR Japan, CFR China (both refrigerated and pressurized cargoes), Ex-terminal domestic China, CP swaps, Ex-terminal domestic Japan, Calorific values, and Term contracts/postings. Also covered is tanker freight rates, government statistics and bid information.
   

Website: www.asia-energylinks.com

To order or obtain more information on these datasets, please contact:

Mr. Yanagi
Kato-Bldg 5G, 2-15, Kanda-Sakuma Cho
Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo 101-0025, Japan
Phone: 813.3865.4221
Fax: 813.3865.4241
Email: rim@gol.com

US Army Corps of Engineers

The US Army Corps of Engineers supplies US government hydro dam levels data for the following 25 dam locations:

• Albeni Falls Dam Columbia Basin
• Bonneville Dam Columbia Basin
• Cougar Dam Willamette Basin
• Chief Joseph Dam Columbia Basin
• Detroit Dam Willamette Basin
• Dworshak Dam Snake Basin
• Foster Dam Willamette Basin
• Grand Coulee Dam Columbia Basin
• Green Peter Dam Willamette Basin
• Hills Creek Dam Willamette Basin
• High Hungry Horse Dam Columbia
• Ice Harbor Dam Snake Basin
• John Day & Lake Umatill Columbia
• Little Goose Dam & Lake Bry Snake
• Libby Dam & Lake Koocanusa Columbia
• Lower Monumental Dam Snake Basin
• Lookout Point Dam Willamette Basin
• Lost Creek Dam Rogue Basin
• Lower Granite Dam Snake Basin
• McNary Dam & Lake Wallula Columbia
• Priest Rapids Dam
• Rock Island Dam
• The Dalles Dam Columbia Basin
• Wanapum Dam
• Wells Dam
   

For more information on this dataset, see their website at: www.nwd-wc.usace.army.mil, phone the Information Management Support line at 503.808.3954 or write to:

US Army Corps of Engineers
Northwestern Division
North Pacific Water Management Division
220 NW 8th Avenue
Portland, OR 97209

To order the dataset, please contact a LIM Sales Representative at sales@lim.com or phone +1.800.546.9646 (US) or +44(0)207.553.2639 (Europe).

LIM Using Futures Expiration Dates Feed from Swap Monitor

LIM has begun using Futures Expiration dates from Swap Monitor in its warehouse for use in calculating futures rollover expirations. The feed includes all actively traded contracts for major futures contracts. For more information, please contact a LIM Sales Representative at sales@lim.com or phone +1.800.546.9646 (US) or +44(0)207.553.2639 (Europe).

Date File Addition: us_security_events.date

LIM has added the date file: "us_security_events.date" to the date file listing in XMIM. To use the new date file from XMIM, just open the Date Condition window and select:

  "Date Files>XMIM>DISASTERS>CRISIS> us_security_events.date"

For detailed information on the date file, see the README file accessible from your XMIM application. You can view the README file using the XMIM Text Editor. From XMIM, just select "XMIM>Text Editor". In the text editor window, select the "Open" icon and go to the path "/home/limall/dates/user/DISASTERS/CRISIS" and select the README file.

MIM "Other" Category Relocations

As part of our ongoing desire to keep your MIM database up-to-date and make the data more accessible to users, we intend to move all of the data under the following TopRelation:Other categories:

TopRelation:Other:InvestSentiment will relocate to TopRelation:EconomicIndicators:USA_Economic:InvestSentiment
TopRelation:Other:LondonMetals will relocate to TopRelation:Energy:Futures:LMEmetals
TopRelation:Other:ForeignExch will relocate to TopRelation:ForeignExchange
TopRelation:Other:EnergyCash will relocate to TopRelation:Energy:Futures:SpotIndices
TopRelation:Other:Astronomy will relocate to TopRelation:Astronomy

The new category LMEmetals will also contain new subcategories that reflect the metal type such as "AluminiumAlloy", "Copper", and "Nickel."

It is planned to implement these changes on June 25, 2004.

Customers will not see any difference in symbols or columns, just the parent change in the hierarchy. The only likely impact would be if an XMIM query referred to the entire relation of the data for one of the TopRelation:Other (or any sub branch) categories listed above (i.e. TopRelation:Other:InvestSentiment). If queries refer directly to symbols, they will not be affected. If you have any questions about this intended change or its impact, please contact our customer support desk at: +1.800.546.9646 (U.S) or +44(0) 207.553.2639 (Europe) or email: support@lim.com.