Midstream
Enhancing clean energy across Africa and emerging economies
The Midstream Operation
The business is fully diversified in terms of regions and products, trading with at least 80 counterparties and with offices across Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. In recent times, the company has traded an average of 80 million barrels of crude and 4 million MT of refined products annually through strategic partnerships and investments. Sahara is currently on target to achieve trade volumes of at least one million bopd.
Sahara trades with a high diverse group of international players, with its key client base being national oil companies, refineries, and other major players in the energy industry in over 20 countries across 4 continents.
Sahara is a key shareholder in some African refineries, some of which include; Societe Ivorienne de Raffinage (SIR), Societe Africaine de Raffinage (SAR) refinery to mention a few, facilitating the refining of its own crude oil in order to capture the full value of the product transformation.
Key commodity area of focus includes:
Liquids: Including crude oil, mid distillates, fuels, light ends
Midstream: Dry and wet bulk freight, transmission, pipeline, and storage capacity
Sahara’s global trading hub adds value by identifying opportunities in commodity trading and deploying bespoke strategies to reconcile gaps between supply and demand through logistics, storage, and processing.
Our team of brilliant traders around the globe leverage on local knowledge thus providing logistical expertise to meet our customers’ requirements. The business has a superior track record of delivering strong performance backed by global financial institutions. The business has a strong risk management framework and the business model initiates physical commodity transactions while securing the margin through appropriate risk management.