Energy Transition

Energy Transition and Swiss Oil Traders: Adaptation, Diversification and Risk

The energy transition poses an existential question for the world’s major oil trading houses: is the commodity in which they have built their expertise, …

Energy Transition Investment Tracker: Geneva Traders and the Clean Energy Pivot

Trading Houses at the Pivot Point

The world’s major commodity trading firms have occupied a peculiar position in the energy transition narrative. Critics …

Green Hydrogen Trading: Switzerland's Commodity Houses Enter the Future Energy Market

Green hydrogen is the commodity that commodity traders want to trade before the market actually exists. Vitol, Trafigura, and Mercuria have all announced hydrogen desks in the past three years — a bet that the institutional infrastructure being built now will define who dominates hydrogen trading when the market reaches commercial scale, projected for the early 2030s.

Energy Transition Trading: How Swiss Trading Houses Are Pivoting from Oil to Green Energy

The world’s largest oil trading companies are headquartered in Switzerland. They are also, increasingly, among the most active participants in the …

Mercuria Energy Group: Geneva's Commodity Trader and Energy Transition Pioneer

Mercuria Energy Group is Geneva’s most intellectually interesting commodity trading house. It is not the largest — that distinction belongs to Vitol. It …