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We broker the following products:

  • Gasoline

    • Gasoline is a toxic translucent, yellow-tinted liquid mixture, derived from petroleum, which is primarily used as a fuel in internal combustion engines. Gasoline is separated from crude oil via distillation, called virgin or straight-run gasoline, does not meet the required specifications for modern engines (in particular octane rating), but forms part of the blend. The various refinery streams blended together to make gasoline all have different characteristics. The grades we trade are,

    • RBOB

      RBOB is the base gasoline mixture produced by refiners or blenders that is shipped to terminals, where ethanol is then added to create the finished ethanol-blended RFG.

    • CBOB/PBOB

      Motor gasoline blending components intended for blending with oxygenates to produce finished conventional motor gasoline.

    • Eurograde Gasoline

      Typical finished grade of gasoline produced in Europe which is commonly imported into the United States and used as a blendstock.

  • Gasoline Blendstocks

    • Gasoline blend stocks are complex mixtures, obtained from crude oil in a refinery distillation process, that become part of the gasoline blend pool. They are used in the formulation of motor gasoline.

    • Alkylate

      Alkylate is an excellent motor gasoline and aviation gasoline blend stock because of its high octane and low volatility. It is created by the alkylation unit using acid catalyst to combine small molecules into larger ones collectively called alkylate. It is the cleanest burning of the gasoline blendstocks.

    • Reformate

      Catalytic reforming is an important refinery process for the manufacture of gasoline from naphtha. Straight run naphtha from crude oil distillation consists mainly of paraffins and naphthenes. It has a low octane number and cannot be used for gasoline blending. The catalytic reformer unit converts low-octane heavy naphtha to high-octane catalytic reformate. Reformate is used as a blend component for gasoline blending.

    • CAT Gas

      Cat Gas is produced when low- value heavy cuts are run through a catalytic cracker. The result is cat cracked gasoline or cat cracked naphtha with a moderate octane rating, high olefins (alkene) content, and moderate aromatics level. This product is considered unfinished gasoline and requires further blending to meet finished motor gasoline specifications in all regions.

    • TX (Toulene/Xylene Mixture)

      TX is a mixture of Toulene & Xylene and is used in gasoline blending. It is sometimes further processed and used in making industrial chemicals and solvents.

    • Naptha

      Naphtha normally refers to a number of different flammable liquid mixtures of hydrocarbons, i.e. a component of natural gas condensate or a distillation product from petroleum or coal tar boiling in a certain range and containing certain hydrocarbons. It is a broad term covering among the lightest and most volatile fractions of the liquid hydrocarbons in petroleum. Naphtha is a colorless to reddish-brown volatile aromatic liquid, very similar to gasoline. Naphtha is used primarily as feedstock for producing high octane gasoline (via the catalytic reforming process).

  • Biofuels
    • Ethanol

      Bioethanol is an alcohol made by fermenting the sugar components of plant materials and it is made mostly from sugar and starch crops. With advanced technology being developed, cellulosic biomass, such as trees and grasses, are also used as feedstocks for ethanol production. Ethanol can be used as a fuel for vehicles in its pure form, but it is usually used as a gasoline additive to increase octane and improve vehicle emissions.

    • Biodiesel

      Biodiesel is made from vegetable oils, animal fats or recycled greases. Biodiesel can be used as a fuel for vehicles in its pure form, but it is usually used as a diesel additive to reduce levels of particulates, carbon monoxide, and hydrocarbons from diesel-powered vehicles. Biodiesel is produced from oils or fats using transesterification and is the most common biofuel in Europe.


    • RINs

      A RIN is a 38-digit number that contains the entire DNA of the fuel it identifies (year of production, producer ID, facility ID, equivalence value, batch number, cellulosic/non-cellulosic, etc.) The EPA requires that each gallon of renewable fuel produced have a unique serial number attached to it. These "Renewable Identification Numbers (RINs)" are then turned into the EPA each year by petroleum refiners to prove that they have blended the required amount of renewable fuel into their gasoline. However, refiners can get around blending renewables into gasoline themselves by purchasing excess RINs from refiners who have used more renewable fuel than was required of them.

  • Distillates

    • Petroleum products are usually grouped into three categories: light distillates (LPG, gasoline, naphtha), middle distillates (kerosene, diesel), heavy distillates and residuum (heavy fuel oil, lubricating oils, wax, asphalt).

    • Heating/Fuel Oil

      Fuel oil is a fraction obtained from petroleum distillation, either as a distillate or a residue. Broadly speaking, fuel oil is any liquid petroleum product that is burned in a furnace or boiler for the generation of heat.

    • LSD/ULSD

      Low sulfur diesel (LSD) and Ultra-low-sulfur diesel (ULSD) are terms used to describe diesel fuel with substantially lowered sulfur content. As of 2006, almost all of the petroleum-based diesel fuel available in Europe and North America is of a ULSD type.

    • Light Cycle Oil

      Light Cycle Oil is one of the recovered product group from the Fluid Catalytic Cracking reaction in the refinery carries hydrocarbon containing C8 to C12 carbon chains. LCO is used as a cutter for viscosity in blending.

    • Jet Fuel

      Jet fuel is a mixture of a large number of different hydrocarbons. The range of their sizes (molecular weights or carbon numbers) is restricted by the requirements for the product, for example, the freezing point or smoke point.

    • Jet A-1

      The most commonly used fuels for commercial aviation are Jet A and Jet A-1 which are produced to a standardized international specification. Jet A specification fuel has been used in the United States since the 1950s and is only available in the United States, whereas Jet A-1 is the standard specification fuel used in the rest of the world. Both Jet A and Jet A-1 have a relatively high flash point of 38 °C (100 °F), with an autoignition temperature of 210 °C (410 °F). This means that the fuel is safer to handle than traditional avgas.

    • Kerosene

      Kerosene, a thin, clear liquid formed from hydrocarbons, with a density of 0.78–0.81 g/cm3, is obtained from the fractional distillation of petroleum between 150 °C and 275 °C, resulting in a mixture of carbon chains that typically contain between six and 16 carbon atoms per molecule.

  • Chemicals
    • Benzene

      Benzene is a natural constituent of crude oil, and is one of the most basic petrochemicals. Benzene is used mainly as an intermediate to make other chemicals. Its most widely-produced derivatives include styrene, which is used to make polymers and plastics, phenol for resins and adhesives (via cumene), and cyclohexane, which is used in the manufacture of Nylon.




    • Toluene

      Toluene, formerly known as toluol, is a clear, water-insoluble liquid with the typical smell of paint thinners. Chemically it is a mono-substituted benzene derivative. Toluene occurs naturally at low levels in crude oil and is usually produced in the processes of making gasoline via a catalytic reformer, in an ethylene cracker or making coke from coal. Final separation (either via distillation or solvent extraction) takes place in a BTX plant.




    • p-Xylene

      p-Xylene is an aromatic hydrocarbon, based on benzene with two methyl substituents. The “p” stands for para, identifying the location of the methyl groups as across from one another. p-Xylene is produced by catalytic reforming of naptha (petroleum derivative) and separated in a series of distillation, adsorption or crystallization and reaction processes from m-xylene, o-xylene and ethylbenzene.


    • Mixed Xylenes

      The three isomers of xylene (ortho-xylene, meta-xylene, and para-xylene) and ethylbenzene, are known collectively as mixed xylenes. Mixed xylenes are used in the production of ethylbenzene, as solvents in products such as paints and coatings, and are blended into gasoline.

    • Pygas

      Pyrolysis gasoline. Pygas is a naphtha-range product with a high aromatics content used either for gasoline blending or as a feedstock for a BTX extraction unit. Pyrolysis gasoline is produced in an ethylene plant that processes naphtha, butane or gasoil.