PVM Data Services GmbH. - Vienna

PVM opened its office in Vienna in 1994 in response to the growing awareness of the Eastern bloc countries to the intricacies of the oil markets and their thirst for information and guidance. Under Managing Director Johannes Benigni, the company grew to employ 60 people in 2007, expanding from a pure broking role into research, trading software, consultancy, publications, training, and data sales.

At that stage it made increasing sense to split the company's activities into three separate companies with different ownership structures to reflect the contributions of those involved. PVM have retained a majority share of PVM Data Services GmbH, while the research, consultancy, publications and training have been taken over by JBC Energy. The trading software activities fall within ComFin Software and Consulting Services GmbH, which was founded in 2005.  

PVM Data Services provides crude oil and petroleum product derivative valuations on a daily and historical basis. The forward market curve data is derived from information supplied directly from brokers within the PVM Group who are actively involved in the minute-to-minute activity in oil markets. In many cases where PVM is the leading broker, the data is the only reliable information available to end users and data providers.

More details of JBC Energy and ComFin's activities can be found on their websites www.jbcenergy.com and www.comfin.net