Moving Energy Reliably
Physical traders like Centalion are inherently resilient, with a historical track record of rapid innovation and effective risk management. They are built to confront changing business environments by making adjustments in location, structure, funding, operating regime and strategy. Size matters, but so too does the ability to remain nimble as new investment and trading opportunities arise. Over the last decade, Centalion has evolved from its pure merchant heritage to being increasingly embedded all along the energy supply chain.
Since 2008, Centalion has been investing in downstream, midstream and upstream assets that strategically complement the company’s daily trading activity. These assets enable Centalion to enhance our management of the sourcing and distribution components of our trading platform, diversify its income streams and strengthen our competitive position.
Investments also provide valuable and detailed insights into the nature of the marketplace locally, regionally and globally. Such information supports the Group’s ability to identify and capture trading opportunities and enhances its profitability.
Wherever Centalion operates, the Group seeks to establish long-term partnerships based on transparency and mutual respect. Centalion aims to share expertise, provide training and build local capabilities so that its trading and investments deliver benefits to the people, communities and businesses the Group partners with and serves.
Centalion has numerous investments, both direct and indirect, in strategically located assets. These include refineries, crude and oil products terminals, pipelines and storages. Increasingly, the company is making investments in Energy Transition assets and opportunities.
Investments also provide valuable and detailed insights into the nature of the marketplace locally, regionally and globally
But it’s not just what the investments bring to Centalion.
As a global trading house, Centalion brings a lot to the assets in which it invests:
Efficiency
Centalion maintains a short chain of command to facilitate efficient decision making, which ensures the company is able to act decisively to secure advantages in the interest of its partners and clients.
Organization
Centalion has established a superior track record for undertaking massive
greenfield infrastructure development projects, delivering on-time and under-
budget, even in the most remote and difficult environments.
Sound Management
Centalion employs a decentralized management approach to its assets, empowering talented professionals and experts to manage day-to-day operations, while reducing overhead and bureaucracy.
Financial Strength
Centalion has effectively turned under-valued and distressed assets into
profitable operations that preserve and grow jobs, while contributing
positively to the local markets in which they operate.
Global Network
With operations, offices and activities on every continent, Centalion is able to add economies of scale to local operations, whether that is in the area of supply, marketing or financing.
Areas of Investment
Upstream
Centalion has made select investments in exploration, appraisal, development and production assets as a part of its strategy of diversifying along the energy supply chain.
Terminals
Centalion maintains ownership stakes in the vessels it charters, entering into joint ventures for refined products tankers. The company further invests in rail and trucking logistics capabilities.
Storage
Investments in storage facilities for crude oil and products are an important logistical aspect of generating value around various arbitrage opportunities relating time, distance and specifications.
Biofuels
Investments in biofuel plants complement Centalion’s growing physical trading in the sector, as well as the company’s expansion into energy transition technologies.
Downstream
Centalion has select investments in consumer fuel retail and distribution, which supports the company’s strategy of owning and investing in assets along the value chain that support core trading operations.
Transportation
Centalion maintains ownership stakes in the vessels it charters, entering into joint ventures for refined products tankers. The company further invests in rail and trucking logistics capabilities.
Pipelines
Investments in pipeline assets provide us with the logistical flexibility to efficiently place different crude oil grades into various markets, enabling us to quickly take advantage of arbitrage opportunities.
Refineries
Refineries complement Centalion’s trading function by creating greater operational efficiency across the supply chain, and benefit from our expertise and global relationships with feedstock suppliers.
Power Generation
Centalion’s investments in power generation complements the company’s strength in natural gas, LNG and its growing power business. Centalion has an established track record of successfully integrating and aligning industrial assets with its core physical energy trading business.
Nyera
Nyera is dedicated to identifying Energy Transition investments,
including new sustainable commodities and businesses.
