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Gunvor Group Ltd

  • Wednesday, 2 April, 2025
    Commodities
    Commodity traders snap up assets and tighten grip on global supply chains

    Trafigura, Vitol, Gunvor and Mercuria in major expansion drive as they deploy windfall profits from energy crisis

    Montage including photos of Russell Hardy, Marco Dunand, Torbjorn Tornqvist and Richard Holtum
  • Tuesday, 27 August, 2024
    Gunvor reports 50% fall in earnings as energy market volatility declines

    Boom for traders that followed Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine may be coming to an end

    Gunvor’s refinery at Rotterdam in the Netherlands
  • Thursday, 1 August, 2024
    Gunvor steps up biofuel bet as it uses record profits to diversify

    Commodity trader buys half of Varo Energy’s $600mn Dutch project

    The Varo refinery in Cressier, Switzerland
  • Friday, 1 March, 2024
    Gunvor to pay more than $660mn to resolve US corruption case

    Swiss group owned by billionaire Torbjörn Törnqvist pleads guilty in New York court over scheme to bribe Ecuadorean officials

    A Gunvor refinery in Rotterdam, Netherlands
  • Monday, 11 December, 2023
    Commodity trader Gunvor to buy Spanish power station from BP

    Geneva-based group aims to take advantage of volatility in gas and power markets

    An LNG carrier uploads liquefied natural gas at the Bahia de Bizkaia plant in Spain
  • Tuesday, 24 October, 2023
    Gunvor chief looks to keep control in family after end of Adnoc talks

    Torbjörn Törnqvist says bumper profits have reduced rationale for seeking outside investor

    Torbjörn Törnqvist
  • Tuesday, 27 June, 2023
    News in-depthRussian business & finance
    Vitol and Gunvor help keep Russian refined oil flowing, data shows

    European energy traders are still large buyers, according to FT analysis of exporters’ customs declarations

    A construction worker climbs out of a fuel storage tank porthole at a VTTV oil storage terminal
  • Wednesday, 3 May, 2023
    Oil & Gas industry
    Shell, BP and Total out-trade Vitol, Trafigura, Mercuria and Gunvor

    European oil majors’ combined trading profits surpass those of the four biggest private energy traders

    The BP logo
  • Wednesday, 22 March, 2023
    Commodities
    Profits at commodity traders hit record in 2022, say finance chiefs

    Companies set high-water mark unlikely to be repeated in 2023

    Stockpiles of coal at the Newcastle Coal Terminal in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
  • Monday, 6 March, 2023
    Adnoc and Gunvor deal talks reach impasse

    Co-founder of Switzerland-based energy trading company said to be reluctant to yield control to Abu Dhabi group

    Oil is pumped into an oil tanker
  • Monday, 6 March, 2023
    Natural gas
    Gunvor chief says loss of Russian gas will cement US export role

    Energy executives see lasting change in global energy market after Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine

    Torbjörn Törnqvist, Gunvor chief executive
  • Monday, 23 January, 2023
    Oil & Gas industry
    Abu Dhabi’s Adnoc and Gunvor extend talks to reach investment deal

    National oil group is seeking a minority stake in commodity trader as it looks to diversify its revenue stream

  • Wednesday, 21 September, 2022
    Gunvor in sale talks with Abu Dhabi’s Adnoc

    Deal for all or part of trading house would boost UAE’s reach in global commodity markets

    A Gunvor refining facility at the port of Rotterdam
  • Thursday, 21 July, 2022
    Commodity trader Gunvor posts record first-half profit

    Net income at Geneva-based group quadruples to $841mn in first six months

    An oil refinery
  • Tuesday, 19 April, 2022
    Gunvor reports highest full-year profit since 2015

    Swiss commodity trader records $726mn in earnings from booming energy demand as lockdowns eased

    A Gunvor refinery in Rotterdam, Netherlands
  • Sunday, 10 April, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    Ukraine calls on commodity traders to stop handling Russian oil

    Vitol, Trafigura, Glencore and Gunvor accused of helping Moscow receive ‘blood money’

    A Rosneft oil derrick in eastern Siberia.
  • Wednesday, 13 October, 2021
    Commodities
    Gunvor cuts LNG positions amid $1bn of margin calls

    Commodity trader moves to reduce gas exposure in face of unprecedented price surge

    Gas storage tanks seen from a distance
  • Wednesday, 29 September, 2021
    Gunvor reveals record trading volumes in rare public release

    Revenues at commodity trader almost double to $47bn in first half of 2021

    An oil tanker
  • Wednesday, 30 June, 2021
    Switzerland probes energy trader Gunvor over activities in Ecuador

    Federal prosecutor launches criminal investigation into suspected bribery and money laundering

  • Wednesday, 18 November, 2020
    Gunvor to end use of agents to win business

    Latest commodity trader to cut back on intermediaries as sector faces scrutiny from regulators

  • Tuesday, 29 September, 2020
    Oil & Gas industry
    Oil traders rush to invest billions into renewables

    Mercuria, Gunvor, Vitol and Trafigura speed up preparations for energy transition

  • Sunday, 14 June, 2020
    Singapore
    Gunvor boss criticises ‘loose lending’ in Singapore

    One of world’s largest independent oil traders raises concerns after trading scandals in city state

  • Thursday, 17 October, 2019
    Gunvor pays almost $100m to settle Africa corruption case

    Prosecutors say Swiss energy trader lacked measures to prevent staff bribing officials

    Toernqvist CEO of Gunvor Group pauses during the first Global Commodities Summit in Lausanne...Torbjoern Toernqvist, CEO of Gunvor Group Ltd, an independent commodity trading company, pauses during a panel discussion at the first Global Commodities Summit in Lausanne April 24, 2012. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse (SWITZERLAND - Tags: BUSINESS COMMODITIES HEADSHOT)
  • Monday, 14 October, 2019
    Gunvor has learnt lessons from corruption case, says chief

    Torbjorn Tornqvist vows to continue tightening procedures at the energy trader

    CEO of Gunvor Group, Torbjorn Tornqvist speaks during the Oil & Money conference in London...CEO of Gunvor Group, Torbjorn Tornqvist speaks during the Oil & Money conference in London October 1, 2013. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor (BRITAIN - Tags: BUSINESS ENERGY) - RTR3FHC7
  • Friday, 7 June, 2019
    Energy trader Gunvor bounces back from first annual loss
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