About Pure Crude Trading

Pure Crude Trading is a business-to-business trade publication for people who move, price, finance and operate physical commodities. Our readers are traders, brokers, charterers, bunker buyers, terminal and vessel operators, analysts and commercial executives.

Our editorial focus is constructive and commercially useful: investment, infrastructure, contracts, vessels, terminals, technology, financing, logistics performance, efficiency and operational milestones. We cover the developments that change how the market works, rather than speculation about who is in trouble.

What we cover

• Commodity trading, brokerage and commodity finance
• Energy trading, gas, LNG, power and renewable fuels
• Crude oil, refining and petroleum products
• Fuel oil, marine fuel grades and bunkering operations
• Tankers, freight, chartering, ports, terminals and storage
• Supply chain, logistics performance and trade technology

How we work

Coverage begins with monitored industry sources. Each story is checked for source reliability, factual consistency with the source material, duplication and editorial risk before it is considered for publication. Articles are original editorial summaries, not copies, and every one carries visible attribution to the reporting it is based on.

We use AI assistance in drafting and metadata, under editorial policy and with automated verification checks, and we say so on every article where it applies. We do not present AI-assisted summaries as independently reported journalism.

What we will not do

• Publish allegations, rumours or unverified claims about companies or individuals
• Invent quotations, statistics, sources, people or company statements
• Rewrite negative reporting into misleading positive news
• Guarantee that any coverage is free of error — instead we correct quickly and visibly