Energy Trading
Crude Oil
Crude oil is the backbone of our commodity trading. We source barrels throughout North America and have access to all the key grades: bitumen, dilbit, heavy, medium, light, and condensate.
Standard captures value throughout the supply train through its vast network of relationships, logistical expertise, and blending capabilities
We offer commercial support with specially tailored, structured transactions, applying our risk management, financial and investment expertise.
Crude oil is a natural fossil fuel that creates most of the worlds energy sources once refined into gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, ship fuel. In addition it is used in the production of chemical products, solvents, fertilizers, pesticides, and plastics
Natural Gas
We focus our efforts on the North American wholesale market. We've developed a number of services to support large scale customers and capitalizing on the increased volumes of natural gas in both the USA and Canada from shale gas.
Natural Gas is a hydrocarbon gas mixture largely made up of methane and some other gases. The gas is typically removed from deep underground rock formations with drilling rigs, processed to remove impurities such as water and carbon dioxide, and sold as consumer fuel for heating, cooking or generating wholesale electricity.
Natural Gas Liquids (NGLs)
The NGL production out of Alberta is rapidly growing and provides a unique opportunity for Standard. Through our established logistics expertise we actively purchase, sell, and transport NGLs throughout North America. Our primary focus is ethane, propane, and butane.
Natural gas liquids (NGLs) are hydrocarbons-in the same family of molecules as natural gas and crude oil, composed exclusively of carbon and hydrogen. There are many uses for NGLs, spanning nearly all sectors of the economy. NGLs are used as inputs for petrochemical plants, burned for space heat and cooking, and blended into vehicle fuel.
Biodiesel
Standard operates within the Renewable Energy Directive framework. We have expertise in a number of feed stocks for biodiesel plants such as canola, soy, animal fat, and cooking oil. Through our distillate network we are able to leverage these expertise to capitalize on purchasing, selling and transporting biodiesel.
Biodiesel is a clean burning renewable fuel made using natural vegetable oils and fats and is made through a chemical process which converts oils and fats into fatty acid methyl esters and is intended to be used as a replacement for petroleum diesel fuel, or can be blended with petroleum diesel fuel in any proportion.
Refined Products
Standard has long standing relationships with a number of refiners and marketers. Through these relationships we purchase, sell, and transport gasoline, distillate, and naphtha.
Gasoline is a fuel made from crude oil and other petroleum liquids. Gasoline is mainly used as an engine fuel in vehicles. Refineries in the United States produce about 19 gallons of gasoline from every 42-gallon barrel of crude oil that is refined
Distillate is a general classification for one of the petroleum fractions produced in conventional distillation operations. It includes diesel fuels and fuel oils. Products known as No. 1, No. 2, and No. 4 diesel fuel are used in on-highway diesel engines, such as those in trucks and automobiles, as well as off-highway engines, such as those in railroad locomotives and agricultural machinery. Products known as No. 1, No. 2, and No. 4 fuel oils are used primarily for space heating and electric power generation.
Naphtha refers to a range of volatile and flammable liquids produced by the distillation of petroleum. The liquids, which differ slightly in their chemical structures and boiling points, have various applications in the refining process - the main one as a feedstock for gasoline and the manufacture of olefins by the petrochemical industry.