Trafigura
Rosneft to close deal with Essar Oil in next few days
Edited by Rhod Mackenzie / 2017-08-09 08:22:06In the coming days Rosneft plans to close the deal to buy a 49% stake in the Indian Essar Oil.
In June Trafigura increased gas supplies to Ukraine by 8 times
Edited by Rhod Mackenzie / 2017-07-13 08:54:32In June, the international trader Trafigura increased its natural gas supplies to Ukraine to its subsidiary Trafigura Ukraine by 8 times compared to import in May.
Fair game: Forbes has made a rating of the largest buyers of Russian oil.
Edited by Rhod Mackenzie / 2017-05-12 09:34:39The 20 participants in the rating account for almost 85% of Russian oil exports, and in 2016 it reached 254.8 million tons.
Rosneft intends to close the deal and all accounting with Indian Essar by March 15th, 2017.
Edited by Rhod Mackenzie / 2017-02-21 12:18:26In March 2017 Rosneft might close a deal to buy a 49% stake in India's Essar Oil, foreign media reported citing the company's representatives on February 21, 2017.
Trafigura has entered the Ukrainian gas market
Edited by Rhod Mackenzie / 2017-01-24 05:20:43Trafigura, the third largest energy trader in the world, in November 2016 started to buy gas in Europe and sell it in the Ukraine.
In a few weeks Rosneft to close a deal to buy the Indian Essar Oil.
Edited by Rhod Mackenzie / 2016-12-13 10:14:31Rosneft, the largest state-owned oil company in Russia, expects to complete the transaction for the purchase of the Indian oil company Essar Oil in a few weeks, according to Russian media quoted th
Trafigura to fight with Rosneft for a stake in Essar Oil
Edited by Rhod Mackenzie / 2016-07-04 04:14:51Trafigura is negotiating on the purchase of the minority stake in the Indian oil processing company Essar Oil. Rosneft also plans to purchase a stake in it.
Trafigura is interested in the purchase of at least 15% of Essar.
The owners of Essar plan to sign the deal by the next month.
The owners of Essar would like to sign up to 30% of Essar to the trader.
As a part of the deal Trafigura might also obtain stake in more than 2,000 fuel stations of Essar, energy station and port Vadinar.
Essar holds the second largest oil refinery plant in India, the processing capacity of which is 20 mln tons a year, complexity index is 11.8 that is one of the highest in the world. The Vadinar oil refinery is able to process heavy sorts of oil, has the access to the deep water port that can accept VLCC tankers of high capacity.
Trafigura and Rosneft are partners forever
Edited by Rhod Mackenzie / 2015-11-17 11:30:27The Dutch commodities trader Trafigura has expanded its cooperation with Rosneft. Last week it became known that an agreement to increase the volume of oil that Trafigura would buy from the largest Russian oil company was signed. The strengthening of the trade ties between the two companies comes amid the sanctions, imposed by the West against the Russian oil and gas companies, including Rosneft. Many Western companies scale down their activities in Russia because of the sanctions. In contrast, Trafigura gains momentum of the trading, buying more raw materials from Rosneft.
Audaces fortuna juvat (Lat.) - Fortune favors the brave
Trafigura buys more from Rosneft than other traders
Edited by Rhod Mackenzie / 2015-07-07 11:04:48In the period from January to May, commodity trader Trafigura acquired 3.8 million tons of oil from Rosneft. This is reported by Argus Media. Thus, Trafigura became the largest foreign partner of Rosneft in the first five months of 2015. For comparison, according to Argus Media, in the same period Rosneft sold the nearest pursuer of Trafigura - Swiss Glencore – 3.2 million tons. Shell received 1.9 million tons, Vitol – 1.74 million, Gunvor - 890 thousand and BP - 180 thousand tons.
According to Argus Media, based on information of Transneft, in the first five months of this year, Rosneft exported 38.8 million tons of raw materials. 18 million tons of them - by sea. Thus, the Trafigura’s share in total exports of Rosneft is about 10%.
A representative of Rosneft declined to comment on RBC data on export deliveries. Trafigura’s representative Victoria Dis refused to disclose details of the transactions with Rosneft. She confined herself to a refer to Trafigura’s report for the period from October 2014 to March 2015. The company stated in it that its access to Russian oil increased from 2013, when its division was opened in Moscow.
Capitalize it
In spring of 2015, the mass media wrote about the growth of the oil purchases from Rosneft by Trafigura. The success of the trader was caused by features of its contracts with Rosneft, which actually allows it to lend Rosneft without violating Western sanctions.
Trafigura becomes a very important exporter of Russian oil.
Edited by Rhod Mackenzie / 2015-06-08 08:45:02Oil trader Trafigura (the Netherlands) became the largest exporter of Russian oil. In April the company has exported nearly 9 million barrels of oil, the total price of which is more than 500 million dollars.
In May, Dutch company exports continued at a similar level.