Trafigura Group Pte. Ltd. is a Singapore-based global commodity trading and logistics company founded in 1993. It is one of the world’s largest independent traders of energy and metals, marketing crude oil, refined petroleum products, natural gas and LNG, and a wide range of metals and minerals. The company supports customers with shipping, storage, blending, and risk management services across global supply chains.
For the chemical value chain, Trafigura sources and supplies petrochemical feedstocks and related intermediates, as well as low‑carbon fuels such as biofuels. It invests in and operates logistics and industrial infrastructure— including terminals, storage, and distribution assets—through subsidiaries and joint ventures to underpin reliable flows to refiners, petrochemical producers, and industrial end users. Trafigura is privately held and operates from offices and assets worldwide.
Also known as Trafigura Group Pte Ltd.
chemXplore tracks 9 projects involving Trafigura, of which 9 are active.
Trafigura's role on them: Owner, Investor / Financier, and Offtaker.
9 new construction.
6 of the active projects carry no start-up date yet.
Contractors, licensors, and offtakers are recorded on all 9 of them For subscribers
Targeting: Hydrogen (2), Lithium Carbonate (2), Sustainable Aviation Fuel (2), Carbon black (1), Cobalt (1), Cobalt(II) hydroxide (1)
Five-year supply of 300,000 t/yr certified soybean oil (total >1 Mt) for SAF and renewable diesel at a Bahia biorefinery due to start operations in 2029.
Integrated deal secures used cooking oil feedstock and offtake for a HEFA biorefinery, linking production to North American and European markets.
Modular Ecofining units, pumps, compressors and Experion PKS controls to accelerate SAF and renewable diesel output from waste fats, oils and greases at a greenfield Bahia site.
Bahia biorefinery to produce 1 billion litres/year of SAF and HVO, targeting start of operations in 2029.
Framework to deliver Congolese cobalt hydroxide to the U.S., targeting up to ~40% of projected U.S. cobalt demand, using the Lobito Atlantic Railway and a new Arizona refinery; construction 2027–2029.
Exclusive talks launched to build a 300,000 tpa primary aluminium smelter and 150,000 tpa anode plant at Nag Hammadi with investment of USD 750–900m.
Will act as exclusive offtaker of Gabon’s Profit Oil; crude sourced from a diversified pool of producing assets; syndication of exposure is underway.
20MW plant at Milford Haven to produce ~2,000 tpa low‑carbon hydrogen; construction 2026, commissioning early 2028; 15 years of revenue support and HAR1 grant funding.
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