Natural Gas
EDF Trading is a major participant in the European and US gas markets with a network of physical assets. It is active in offshore production, transportation, storage, and wholesale trading and has the ability to transact across all markets and offer customised products and complete solutions. Its assets include gas storage facilities, a large portfolio of long-term gas contracts, regasification capacity in Europe and the USA and LNG supply agreements. EDF Trading operates on all of Europe’s gas trading hubs in Belgium, France, Holland, UK, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Italy and Ireland. EDF Trading is a leader in the wholesale natural gas markets for North America. It offers a full service, natural gas marketing operation with expertise in all segments of the natural gas industry.

Domestic Crude:

Sempra Energy Trading is a major market maker in the US mid-continent physical crude market with pricing alternatives either fixed or indexed to posted prices or NYMEX averages.

Refined Petroleum Products:

Sempra Energy Trading is active in all petroleum products supply and trading throughout Europe, Asia and the US. We partner with major refineries and utilities to satisfy their risk management requirements by the use of swaps, options and futures. We actively trade a complete range of products: condensates, naphtha, gasoline, jet fuel, heating oil and residual fuel oil.

North Sea Physical Trading:

Sempra Energy Trading ® participates in the actively traded North Sea crude oil markets, in particular, Brent BFO and its derivatives. To minimize exposure to market fluctuations, the Brent traders supply their customers with physical crude oil and a host of associated risk management products.

Derivatives:

Our Oil Derivatives Group develops strategies to aid customers in limiting their exposure to fluctuating oil prices. Our products cover everything from basic swaps to complex derivatives.

Trading means doing business. The term petroleum trading descrbies the financial operations associated with commerce in hydrocarbon cargoes. The organisation of this business is complex.All the major oil companies have trading subsidiaries. Their main objective is to ensure a regular supply of crude oil to their refineries, to meet the oil supply demands of the processing plant at any one time.

The Traders’ Role

The traders’ role is to purchase the oil that is necessary in terms of quality and quantity a little time in advance. But if we talk about selling, we automatically talk also about buying. A skilful trader can quite possibly buy a cargo of oil at a rather low price to quickly resell it at a profit, if others need the cargo more than he does and are ready to pay the price. So, it is not rare for a cargo of oil to change ownership during transport, sometimes several times: destined initially for the United States, it is purchased during transport by a refiner in Rotterdam in the Netherlands and finally finishes up at the Fos-sur-Mer refinery, which had a more pressing need for it. The trader also handles negotiations for the finished products produced by the refineries. And of course, if the company doesn’t need it for its own refineries, he handles the sale of crude oil that it owns. Traders buy and sell cargoes on a real market, organised on a worldwide basis; dealing in quantities of oil which exist physically and which are due to be transported shortly or are even already in transport. These markets are called spot-markets.

CORPS International Ltd.

CORPS Logistics is an international petroleum products trading facilitator, providing such logistical supply services worldwide, specialising in Central African countries, through CORPS Group incorporating CORPS International Ltd (England and Wales), and regionally through CORPS Lex Legis CC (South Africa). Through our alliances and affiliations with both South African and International Petroleum refineries, can CORPS Logistics assist you as the buyer to negotiate and supply your petroleum product needs in a correct, cost effective and timely manner. Regional supply services refer to petroleum products supply to countries within and directly surrounding South Africa. Regional petroleum supplies are managed from South Africa, and all products are supplied from South African refineries by road transportation means. International petroleum products supply is managed through CORPS Group UK affiliate, CORPS International Ltd, responsible for the supply of petroleum products from foreign refineries, to international destinations. Currently CORPS Logistics specialises in the supply of all types of petroleum products as required for use in the industrial, aviation and road transportation sectors to developing- and previously isolated destinations, specifically within the Central African region.

International Petroleum Trading.

While engaging in the regional trading of petroleum products prior to 1994, it then gradually improved its trading experience between the Caspian Sea and other CIS countries. In 2000, the company opened its doors to the international market and in 2001 it expanded and developed its trading of petroleum and petroleum products between the Caspian Sea and the Mediterranean. In 2002, a series of organizational decisions allowed the company to open offices in Singapore and London. With this objective, the company aims to place itself in the international petroleum community and to increase its knowledge and experience in the field.There are agreements with the international petroleum companies, which Intersun co-operates with and develops to increase their knowledge for further achievements. The Group's basic philosophy is to be loyal to partners and preferred long-term relationships, as this support the Company's future objectives.