Global Oil & Gas: The World’s Largest Oil Traders Are Shifting Strategy

The world’s largest independent oil trader, Vitol, is looking to secure long-term deals with some of the biggest oil-producing countries in the Middle East, in what has become a challenging wider oil-trading market.

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Africa Oil & Gas: Congo seeks relief talks with oil traders over $2bn debt

Congo Republic is set to become the latest African country to start debt relief talks with trading houses after borrowing $2-billion from merchants such as Trafigura and Glencore but now finding its debt levels unsustainable, sources familiar with the matter said.

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Africa Oil & Gas: TRAFIGURA suspected of breaking embargo on North Korea

The holding company Trafigura, the main oil supplier to Angola, is quoted in a Bloomberg investigation as one of the companies that can break through the economic sanctions imposed on North Korea by selling oil to the country.

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Mozambique Oil & Gas: Vitol in stand-off on US$80- million oil ‘overcharging’

Vitol in Africa stand-off on US$80- million oil ‘overcharging’ Vitol, the world’s biggest oil trader, faces a potential scandal over claims that it ripped off the people of impoverished Mozambique for critical fuel by at least US$80-million last year.

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