Marco Dunand, our CEO, recently took part in a panel on energy security in a net-zero future, at the World Government Summit. As it turns the pumps back on, Libyan oil firm Agoco has allocated Vitol half of its crude production to repay debts. Exclusive: State-backed Chinese fund buys stake in energy trader Mercuria A fleet of tankers and Asias largest commercial storage facility are among the companys assets. The payout percentage of profits at the commodities houses can be double what Wall Street banks pay, says George Stein of New York headhunting firm Commodity Talent. We dont hear much about them yet, but in time we will.. His partners seized control of the firm in 1994, renaming it Glencore. In two decades of oil trading, Dunand and Jaeggi built fearsome reputations for seeing profit margins where others could only see potential losses. S&P Global Platts talks to Mercuria CEO and co-founder Marco Dunand about the challenges, implications, and opportunities that the COVID-19 pandemic presents across all the key commodity classes in a time of unprecedented volatility in the global markets. The warehouses seem to have an infinite capacity to absorb metal, but a very small capacity to release it, said Nick Madden of Novelis, the worlds top rolled aluminum producer. In 2006 a tanker it chartered dumped toxic waste in Ivory Coast, allegedly making thousands ill and killing up to 16. Or this: Glencore in 2010 controlled 55 percent of the worlds traded zinc market, and 36 percent of that for copper. The company lists its trade in paper derivatives as larger still, or about 10 million barrels a day. The unit has generated $750 million in annual operating profit before compensation costs, according to people who have seen documents circulated in relation to the sale. And his silence helped feed rumors about Gunvors remarkable growth. In 1972 Cargill came under attack as it secretly sold millions of tonnes of wheat to Russia, using a U.S. export subsidy program to boot -- and boosting food inflation. A profile in the New Yorker magazine last year identified the brothers as behind-the-scenes operators who bankroll the U.S. Though it began as a pure metals and oil trader, Glencore has bought a wealth of industrial assets since the late 1980s which now stretches from South American farmland to copper mines in Zambia. [11], Its subsidiaries include Navitas Energy in Canada[12] and Vesta Terminal Services in Europe,[13] which operates port logistics, storage and processing facilities in the Netherlands, Estonia, Belgium, and Germany. You were always a little worried, taking the other side of their trades, said one European oil product trader, who declined to be identified. Founded in 2004 by Swiss traders Marco Dunand and Daniel Jaeggi. Shortly after the material was dumped, thousands of residents of the city of Abidjan complained of illnesses, including breathing problems, skin irritation and related ailments. It also said its foreign units had ended sales to Iran years ago, and did not violate U.S. law by conducting business with Iran earlier. Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Marco Dunand, co-founder and President Daniel Jaeggi and Mercuria's global head of trading Magid Shenouda control the stake through a Guernsey-registered company called MDJ Oil Trading Ltd. ChemChina Stake Work Permit Application Outcome. The grains business accounts for a third of its earnings and could have a value of more than $5 billion. That comment didnt help calm rumors and then Timchenko spoke too. Arcadia doesnt make its revenues public. Arcadia often trades large volumes of oil from Nigeria and Yemen, where it boasts close relationships with state oil firms. Welcome - Mercuria Corporate Social Responsibility Big trading firms now own a growing number of the mines that produce many of our commodities, the ships and pipelines that carry them, and the warehouses, silos and ports where they are stored. 13 in the Fortune 500 list of publicly held companies, just behind Wall Street banking giant Citigroup.

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