Chicago (September 19, 2011) – TruMarx Data Partners, Inc. the creator of COMET, the energy industry’s leading web-based platform for individual bilateral over-the-counter (OTC) energy transactions, today announced that more than 210 companies are now participants on the platform.  This represents nearly 1000 individual users of COMET.

“This is an important milestone for COMET since we have been fully focused on building and growing the COMET community,” said Jerry Putnam, Chairman and CEO of TruMarx.  “Our mission is to create a platform that is the gold standard for efficiency, accountability, and recordkeeping in bilateral energy trading.  We believe we can leverage this recent growth to create more opportunities for all energy market participants.”

COMET subscribers include consumer & industrials, producers, suppliers, utilities, municipalities, local distribution companies, marketers, energy service providers and other participants transacting in OTC physical and financial natural gas and power transactions.