Serenia Oil Trading and Shipping Services Limited was established in 2017 by Paul Bramley with the aim to offer decades of trading and shipping experience to smaller oil companies.
Services
The transaction and operation of physical oil movements to assist clients minimise supply costs and take control of their own deliveries.
The handling of cargo sale and purchase negotiations, the management of price risk and the handling of all related operations.
Serenia Oil Trading and Shipping Services Limited can assist with oil supply or sale projects and tender submissions.
The provision of tailored advice and the preparation of feasibility studies for oil supply projects.
Serenia Oil Trading and Shipping Services Limited can offer a tanker chartering service, supporting clients with their requirements to ship their cargoes and handle all post-fixture operations.
Clients
Independent petroleum products distribution companies
A national oil company
Start-up trading companies
A trade finance bank
Assignments
Sourcing and shipping cargoes of petroleum products to the Indian Ocean Islands.
Preparing feasibility studies for new bunkering operations in the Indian Ocean.
Contributing to a feasibility study for the establishment of a new oil marketing company.
The provision of tailored advice for a National Oil Company to reduce supply costs, increase the utilization of an oil storage terminal and to develop new business.
Structuring of a mechanism and handling the negotiations for the sale of fuel oil in the Arabian Gulf.
Marketing of crude oil to destinations in the Mediterranean Sea.
Provision of a tanker chartering service.
About Paul
In 1988 Paul started his career in shipping, initially with BP and then John I Jacobs. In 1996 Paul was introduced to oil trading while working for Galana Petroleum where he helped build a portfolio trading petroleum products and tankers around the Arabian Gulf, East Africa and the Indian Ocean Islands, then in 2009 he became a consultant to the Vitol Group where helped to establish new products trading activity in the Indian Ocean.
Throughout his career spanning over 30 years Paul has concluded hundreds of oil sales and purchases and chartered about 1,000 tankers, he has negotiated throughput contracts for storage terminals, transacted futures and derivatives, negotiated trade finance and handled all operations related to cargo sales and purchases and tanker fixtures. Paul has a B.A. (Hons) Economics and Geography from Middlesex Polytechnic and a M.A. Management from Durham University Business School.
