Mercuria Energy Group Ltd is a Swiss privately held international commodity trading company active over a wide spectrum of global energy markets including crude oil and refined petroleum products, natural gas (including LNG), power, coal, biodiesel, vegetable oils, and carbon emissions.
They are one of the world's five largest independent energy traders and asset operators and are based out of Geneva, Switzerland, with 28 additional offices worldwide.
Mercuria moves about 1.5m barrels a day of crude and oil products daily, and has upstream and downstream assets ranging from oil reserves in Argentina, Canada and the US, to oil and products terminals in Europe and China, as well as substantial investment in the coal mining industry and bio fuels plants under construction in Germany and the Netherlands. Their primary competitors are Swiss commodity houses Glencore, Trafigura and Vitol, US based trader Cargill and Hong Kong/Singapore based Noble Group.