Shell is shaking up its mighty in-house trading unit, with the retirement of Mark Quartermain as head of crude -- a job widely seen as the most powerful in the global oil-trading industry.
Liveried Sikh doormen have welcomed royalty, literary giants and the deep of pocket to Singapore’s Raffles Hotel for decades. And for one night in September they let in the global oil trading community for the industry’s social highlight of the year.
Vitol Group BV, the trader that shipped the first cargo of U.S. crude after export restrictions ended in late 2015, predicts the country’s oil exports will grow “a lot more” because of rising production in Texas.