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Crude oil and refined products for your market

Whether you are buying refinery feedstock or refined product for import, the questions are the same: is the grade right for your market, can it arrive on schedule, and on what delivery basis. Four families cover it: crude oil as feedstock, light and middle distillates, and residual fuels. The regions served are set out on the Markets page.

Crude Oil
Feedstock1–2 million bbls
Grenelle supplies and procures crude oil across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and the Indian subcontinent.
As the foundational input to the entire refining value chain, crude oil underpins every product Grenelle trades. Grenelle sources and supplies a range of light-sweet and heavier-sour crude grades to meet diverse refinery configurations and client requirements.
Crude grades are distinguished by density and sulphur content: light-sweet grades yield more high-value transport fuels, while heavier-sour grades suit refineries with the conversion and desulphurisation capacity to process them. Physical cargoes typically price against recognised benchmarks such as Brent, with quality differentials reflecting each grade's assay, and trade in full cargo lots against dated pricing windows.
Light Distillates
GasolineNaphtha20,000–50,000 MT
Grenelle supplies and procures light distillates across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and the Indian subcontinent.
Light distillates serve dual roles across the energy value chain, powering light-duty road transport as gasoline while also functioning as a critical feedstock for petrochemical production. Grenelle supplies these products across various octane and spec grades to serve both fuel and petrochemical end-markets.
Gasoline is commonly traded against octane grades in the 91 to 95 RON range, with specification detail set by the destination market's regulation. Naphtha splits into paraffinic grades favoured as steam-cracker feedstock and heavier grades used for reforming and gasoline blending; Asia is a major importer of seaborne naphtha for its petrochemical complexes. Demand for the two products follows different cycles, reflecting their fuel and petrochemical end-markets.
Middle Distillates
Gas OilDieselJet/Aviation Fuel20,000–50,000 MT
Grenelle supplies and procures middle distillates across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and the Indian subcontinent.
Middle distillates form the backbone of global transport and industrial activity, spanning road diesel, marine and power-generation gas oil, and aviation-grade jet fuel. Grenelle supplies this product family across a range of sulphur specifications and quality grades, from regional gas oil standards to the tightly specified requirements of jet fuel.
Diesel and gas oil are commonly traded against sulphur limits ranging from 10 ppm ultra-low-sulphur grades to 500 ppm and higher regional standards, with cold-flow properties set to the destination climate. Gas oil carries power generation and marine auxiliary demand alongside road transport, particularly in markets where grid supply is constrained. Jet fuel trades against the internationally recognised Jet A-1 specifications with certification documentation travelling through every custody transfer, and is tightly specified in routine physical trade.
Residual Fuels
Fuel Oil (HSFO/VLSFO)20,000–50,000 MT
Grenelle supplies and procures residual fuels across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and the Indian subcontinent.
Residual fuel oil remains a vital energy source for marine bunkering and power generation, particularly across transit-heavy and emerging markets. Grenelle supplies both high- and low-sulphur grades, reflecting the post-IMO 2020 regulatory landscape that continues to shape the global marine fuels market.
The marine fuels market splits on the IMO 2020 0.5 percent sulphur cap: VLSFO serves vessels without exhaust-gas cleaning, while HSFO continues to trade for scrubber-fitted tonnage and power generation, commonly against ISO 8217 specifications. Viscosity and sulphur are the principal commercial parameters, and demand concentrates at bunkering hubs and coastal power plants across transit-heavy routes.

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Grenelle states typical volumes of 1–2 million bbls for crude oil. Grenelle states typical volumes of 20,000–50,000 MT for light distillates, middle distillates, and residual fuels; lower volumes may be served.

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