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We specialise in sourcing, supplying and trading crude oil and refined petroleum products. From these origins we have expanded the portfolio to encompass petrochemicals, biofuels, environmental products, natural gas and LNG, power, coal, iron ore, base metals and a range of other dry bulk commodities and agricultural products.
We enhance our trading activities with strategic assets providing valuable insights into market places where we operate and enabling us to optimize the supply chain; for example, by business management regarding oil production services, fuels and electrical energy, and transport storage and delivery of goods.
Crude oil
Our global network of trading offices, ideally located in all the major oil trading regions, allows us to identify changing crude oil flows and evolving market dynamics. Halkin Group captures value throughout the supply chain through its relationships with oil producers, superior logistics capabilities, and strategically located storage and blending facilities. Our experience and understanding of oil markets enables us to implement robust hedging programs in volatile environments.
We offer commercial support with specially tailored, structured transactions, applying our risk management, financial and investment expertise.
Fuel oil
Strong relationships are central to our fuel oil business and they enable us to respond efficiently to the requests of our customers. We have in-depth awareness of market developments through our activities in all the major oil trading forums. Complementing this with our worldwide network of offices, we have both a global perspective and local insight into real time market dynamics.
Halkin Group not only provides the reassurance of delivering on specification and on time, but we can also facilitate tailor-made pre-financing while associating the necessary risk management packages.
Middle distillates
We supply jet fuel, heating oil and diesel globally and work with our partners to meet all their needs incorporating logistics, finance and risk management.
With a global view of the marketplace, and the ability to ship, store and blend, Halkin Group is ideally set-up to support customers with comprehensive services for the supply of middle distillates.
Natural gas
Halkin Group is strategically developing its natural gas activities to reflect the growing globalization of the gas market.
We are now a significant participant in the natural gas wholesale market and have a strong customer base of utilities and large industrial consumers.
Halkin Group’s involvement in all major energy commodity markets including gas, oil, power and coal is significant as markets become ever more interrelated. Our physical presence combined with trading insights enable us to support customers with a range of individually tailored cross-commodity transactions, trade finance products and risk management services.
LNG
LNG is increasingly becoming a focus for Halkin Group. We will endeavor to establish supply partnerships and global logistics through which we hope to support partners with LNG.
Halkin Group’s experience of trading all the major energy products and our understanding of the dynamics within and across the energy markets establishes us with powerful insights as to the ebb and flow of LNG demand.
With our acknowledged trading expertise we provide wholesale market access to upstream producers and project developers as well as supplying downstream customers such as utilities, industrial concerns, governments and financial investors. We employ a range of sophisticated tools including spot, forward, swaps and spreads and can tailor structured transactions to incorporate features such as cross-commodity hedging and embedded optionality to better manage market risk.
Base metals
Halkin Group is developing an integrated platform ranging from physical metals sourcing, risk management and trading.
Halkin Group, through its partners has established base metals teams in Shanghai, London and Geneva. We trade copper, aluminum, lead, zinc, nickel and tin across the physical and financial hubs of Asia, Europe and America.
Our aim is to provide a vertically integrated platform that enables our partners to gain access to physical metal as well as market insights.
Soft commodities
Halkin Group’s presence in the agricultural markets reflects the ever-increasing linkages between energy and other commodity markets.
Convergence across the world’s commodity asset classes is increasingly evident. At Halkin Group, we actively develop our presence in major agricultural origin and destination markets. Current product coverage includes primary food and feed grains, oil seeds, and vegetable oils.
Gasoline & naphtha
Halkin Group integrates all the elements of competitive pricing, logistics, storage and product optimization.
In an environment where specification varies widely by region, we utilize our extensive logistic, storage and blending capabilities to guarantee delivery of the right quality in the right volume at the right time.
Precision in our blends and deliveries includes matching the best price. Whether supplying by tender or via the spot market, Halkin Group can be relied on to be competitive.
Hard commodities
Halkin Group acts throughout the global Hard Commodities supply chain from commodity producers to end-user.
Halkin Group through its partners, has a long established presence in China for all major commodities, including the important Chinese steel mill sector. Our considerable knowledge and experience helps us to maintain enduring local partnerships. Market risks are managed from our offices in Geneva and Singapore where we have experienced teams in all aspects of the business including freight.