The New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc. announced today that it will offer its physically delivered energy futures contracts on the CME Globex electronic trading platform during its regular open outcry trading hours, beginning on September 4 for trade date September 5. The contracts will trade side by side in conjunction with NYMEX trading floor hours, and they will be fungible with the floor-traded NYMEX energy contracts.

The contracts include the NYMEX crude oil (CL), natural gas (NG), heating oil (HO) and gasoline (HU, RB) futures contracts. The contracts on CME Globex will be listed for the full curve, or all months corresponding with the underlying full-sized futures contract and will be available for trading from 6:00 PM ET Sundays through 5:15 PM ET Fridays, with a 45-minute break each day between 5:15 PM ET and 6:00 PM ET.

Details regarding the competitive fee structure will be provided prior to the September 4 launch.

NYMEX launched financially settled, standard-sized and NYMEX miNY TM energy futures contracts for trading on CME Globex on June 12. Access to electronic trading of NYMEX products is available virtually 24 hours a day on CME Globex.