AMSTERDAM--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE: ICE), the leading global network of exchanges and clearing houses, today announced that ICE Endex has agreed with GasTerra, the international natural gas Dutch trading firm, to continue the facilitation of gas storage auction services in the Netherlands.

ICE Endex has successfully operated auctions for virtual gas storage services since 2011, and hosts auctions twice a year in November and February. Natural gas from the virtual gas storage service is delivered at the Title Transfer Facility (TTF).

Gas storage services are sold in the form of “Standard Bundled Units” (SBUs), which allow market participants to inject or withdraw natural gas from a virtual gas storage facility. An SBU has a capacity of 1,440 kWh and participants can withdraw between 0.6 and 1.0 kWh per hour and inject up to 0.3333 kWh per hour. The total annual gas storage space is almost 20 billion kWh of natural gas or 13,229,456 SBUs.

2014 / 2015 Auction Results:

2015 / 2016 Auctions:

For the 2015 / 2016 contract year, the total amount of 9,098,901 SBUs will be equally divided over two auctions. The first auction is scheduled to take place on November 19, 2014, and the second on February 4, 2015. The SBUs are a one year product for which the price mechanism is a fixed price.

About Intercontinental Exchange

Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE: ICE) is the leading network of regulated exchanges and clearing houses for financial and commodity markets. ICE delivers transparent, reliable and accessible data, technology and risk management services to markets around the world through its portfolio of exchanges, including the New York Stock Exchange, ICE Futures and Liffe.

Trademarks of ICE and/or its affiliates include Intercontinental Exchange, ICE, ICE block design, NYSE, New York Stock Exchange and LIFFE. Information regarding additional trademarks and intellectual property rights of Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. and/or its affiliates is located at https://www.theice.com/terms.jhtml and http://www.nyx.com/terms-use.

Safe Harbor Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 - Statements in this press release regarding ICE's business that are not historical facts are "forward-looking statements" that involve risks and uncertainties. For a discussion of additional risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, see ICE's Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings, including, but not limited to, the risk factors in ICE's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2013, as filed with the SEC on February 14, 2014.

SOURCE: IntercontinentalExchange

ICE-ENGY

Media Contact:
Claire Miller
+44 20 7065 7745
claire.miller@theice.com
or
Adaora Anunoby
+44 20 7429 7147
aanunoby@theice.com
or
Investor Contact:
Kelly Loeffler
+1 770 857 4726
kelly.loeffler@theice.com

Source: Intercontinental Exchange