Products

Our team of experienced, forward-thinking energy industry professionals source, manage, and develop a wide assortment of heating oil, diesel, gasoline, jet fuel, natural gas, and biofuel products and blends. We deliver these products at competitive prices through a variety of near and long-term contracts. In addition, we employ risk and resource management best practices to successfully minimize market risk, optimize assets, and expand our capacities and market reach.  EM more recently is also involved in development and management of biofuel asset related projects.

Market growth and price volatility are producing unprecedented energy risk management opportunities.  To enhance those rewards for its clientele, the Energy Merchant team consistently expands its range of activities and the scope of its product lines. These currently include:

• Firm Fixed Pricing

• Leveraged Fixed Price

• Crude Oil Based Pricing

• Variable/Index Based Pricing

• Escalating/De-escalating Pricing

• Off Season/Deferred Pricing

• Asset-Backed Pricing

• Regional Supply

• Fuel Switching

• Caps, Floors, and Range-Based

Services

Energy Merchant offers a variety of fuel physical supply programs that are designed to protect margins, lock in a budget, and guarantee supply.  Each of the programs works best under certain market conditions.   Energy Merchant works with it's customers to create innovative programs tailored to the customer's specific needs including:

• Protecting a budget with a fixed price for future deliveries

• Purchasing individual loads at the rack without future commitments

• Protecting against local price spikes by indexing to a widely published price (NYMEX, PLATTS, OPIS)

• Gaining economic benefits by bulk purchases in spot markets even though customer purchases only truckload quantities

• Locking in weak market pricing environment for future deliveries

• Providing physical supply tied to a market hedge for accounting simplicity

Target industrial and commercial customers can realize optimal results with Energy Merchant programs in key business sectors. These identified sectors include oil jobbers, government agencies, municipalities, transportation fleets, truck stops, marine, utilities, and other commercial/industrial customers who require consistent, managed fuel supplies.

Benefits

Our flexible programs allow Energy Merchant customers to fix input costs, lock-in output prices, or secure gross profit margins. They also can optimize forward ranges from one month to 5 years. Some strategies even permit a profit sharing structure based on early contract termination when favorable market conditions arise.