History
The first energy derivatives covered petroleum products and emerged after the fundamental restructuring of the world petroleum market in the 1970s. At roughly the same time, energy products began trading on derivatives exchange with crude oil, heating oil, and gasoline futures on NYMEX and gas oil and Brent crude on the International Petroleum Exchange (IPE).
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