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2025
Dimitris Mertikas
Dimitris Mertikas, with Praxis Energy Agents before working at Glander International Bunkering in Dubai for six years, has left the company.
December, 2025
Raffaella Benvenuto
Raffaella Benvenuto, previously with ExxonMobil and the Cockett Group in Rome, has joined GeoServe in Dubai as Manager of Marine Lubricants and Bunker Operations. Tel: +971 4446 4500; Mob: +971 52 532 7423; Email: [email protected].
December, 2025
Neethu Varghese
Neethu Varghese, previously with Matrix Bharat in Mumbai, Peninsula, Nestor Marine GP Global Group, Oleo Energy and Axion Global Oil and Gas Trading in Dubai, has joined Monjasa as a Senior Trader. Tel: +971 4 420 8600; Email: [email protected].
December, 2025
Chris Turner
Chris Turner, with Inspectorate in the UK for almost 20 years, Cockett Group in Dubai for six and Integr8 Fuels for nine, in Singapore and now Dubai, has been appointed Technical Manager. Email: [email protected].
December, 2025
Marie Steenkamp
Marie Steenkamp, a lawyer with World Fuel Services in Cape Town since 2014, has been appointed Senior Counsel at World Kinect.
October, 2025
Nina Janse van Rensburg
Nina Janse van Rensburg, previously with World Fuel Services and Cockett Group in Cape Town, has joined Hanseatic Bunker Services GmbH. Tel: +27 72 627 6097; Email: [email protected].
October, 2025
Tassos Spyrellis
Tassos Spyrellis, previously with Oil Marketing and Trading, Middle East Gulf Bunkers, Peninsula, Alchemist Energy Trading, Max Energy Fuel Trading, Netwise Trading and Flow Energy Trading, has joined Rock Petroleum in Dubai as a Senior Trader. Tel: +971 0 4572 7661; Email: [email protected].
October, 2025
Sajjad Rehman
Sajjad Rehman, previously with Prestige Diesel Trading, Orchid Petrochem and AGT Petroleum Bunkering, has been appointed Managing Director at Yez Fuel Trading in Dubai. Tel: +971 56 800 0530; Email: [email protected].
October, 2025
Ajay Menon
Ajay Menon, previously with Behzad Group, Bunker Holding and Glander International Bunkering, has been appointed General Manager at Confidential in Dubai.
October, 2025
Derya Dikgoz
Derya Dikgoz, previously with Sea Pioneer and Cockett Group in Istanbul, has joined HMS Bergbau AG in Dubai as a lubricants and bunker trader. Mob: +971 50 578 9775; Email: [email protected].
October, 2025
Michael Bruno-Sorensen
Michael Bruno-Sorensen, previously with OW Bunker USA and Dan-Bunkering, has joined Burando Energies in Dubai as Offshore Manager. Mob: +971 56 182 2224; Email: [email protected].
October, 2025
Jonalyn Diaz
Jonalyn Diaz, previously with Chemoil, Integr8 Fuels, World Fuel Services and Cockett Group, has joined Oilmar DMCC in Dubai as a supply trader. Tel: +971 4 443 0819; Email: [email protected].
October, 2025
HRH Abdulaziz Al Saud bin Turki and Chris Todd
HRH Abdulaziz Al Saud bin Turki has launched a new marine fuel trading firm in Saudi Arabia and Rotterdam. Chris Todd, previously with Tramp Oil & Marine, World Fuel Services and OceanConnect Marine in Hull, UK, and with Chemoil Corp., Soyuz Bunkering Group, GP Global Group and Delta Energy Fuel Supply & Trading in Rotterdam, has been appointed Head of Global Trading at Eleven Energy, a division of Eleven Ventures in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Email: [email protected].
August, 2025
Mohd Aadil Khan
Mohd Aadil Khan, previously with Metalok Marine Trading and Hawks Energy, has joined Shipergy in Dubai as an Energy Trader.
August, 2025
Paul Jrs Rezos Meza, Prathap Saminathan, and Zeynep Grassaloglu
Paul Jrs Rezos Meza, previously with Stem Fuels in Valencia, Prathap Saminathan, previously a ship broker, and Zeynep Grassaloglu, have joined FLEX Commodities in Dubai as a Marine Fuels and Lubricant Traders. Email: [email protected].
August, 2025
Kimihiro Kido
Kimihiro Kido, previously at Consort Bunkers and Toyota Tsusho Petroleum in Singapore, Toyota Tsusho Marine Fuels in London, and Nautical Supply International in Dubai, has joined Island Oil DMCC as Head of International Trading UAE. Tel: +971 5 0705 9188; Email: [email protected].
August, 2025
Nancy Ndlovu
BP Marine’s Nancy Ndlovu is now Supply Trading & Shipping Operator in Johannesburg. Tel: +27 7 9591 7416; Email: [email protected].
June, 2025
Vasileios Analytis
Vasileios Analytis, previously with Gram Marine in Greece, KPI OceanConnect and Aurora Marine Fuels in London and ENGINE in Dubai, has joined Burando Energies as a Senior Bunker Trader in Dubai. Email: Vasileios [email protected].
June, 2025
Chris Young
After almost 18 years at Vitol, most recently as Global Bunkering Account Manager in Dubai, Chris Young has left the company.
June, 2025
Dinkar Notani
Dinkar Notani, previously with BGH Exim and Peninsula Petroleum before joining World Fuel Services in Dubai in 2014, has resigned his position as Supply Manager Middle East.
June, 2025
Fadi Janho
Fadi Janho, previously with The Hawks in the Maldives before joining Oilmar DMCC in Dubai as a trader, has been promoted to Trading Manager – UAE. Tel: +971 4 443 0819; Mob: +971 54 574 6656; Email: [email protected].
April, 2025
Alfred William Poulsen
Alfred William Poulsen, previously of KPI Ocean Connect, has joined Glander International Bunkering in Dubai as a Bunker Purchaser. Tel: +971 4 437 1700; Email: [email protected].
April, 2025
Aris Altintzis
Aris Altintzis, previously with BMS United and Bunker Partner, has joined Burando Energies in Athens as a Senior Bunker Trader. Tel: +971 5 6182 2227; Email: [email protected].
April, 2025
Deepak Dharwal
Deepak Dharwal, previously with Adani Group in India, LQM Petroleum Services in Singapore, Gulf Petrochem in Dubai and Gulf Petrol Supplies in Fujairah, has joined Fratelli Cosulich in Dubai as Trading Manager. Mob: +971 5 0267 3888; Email: [email protected].
April, 2025
Chantale Nasr
Chantale Nasr has been promoted to Bunker Trading Manager at Med Petroleum DMCC in Dubai. Tel: +971 55 3800 6674; Email: [email protected].
April, 2025
Nazihah Timol
Nazihah Timol, with BP Southern Africa for 12 years and then Vivo Energy for five years until 2019, has returned to the bunker market and joined African Marine Solutions Group (AMSOL) in Cape Town. Mob: +27 6 4896 6144; Email: [email protected].
February, 2025
Rohit Singh & Shubhanshu Chaturvedi
Rohit Singh, previously with Chemoil Adani in India, Gulf Petrol Supplies in Fujairah, Al-Iraqiya Shipping Services & Oil Trading and Axiom Global in Dubai, has founded bunker supplier Sea Leader DMCC in Dubai. Tel: +971 4558 7425; Email: [email protected]. Shubhanshu Chaturvedi, previously with Aditya Fuels, Adani Group and Axiom Global Oil & Gas Trading, and Sunny Singh, previously with Axiom and SPR Global Oil & Commodities, have joined as bunker traders. Email: [email protected].
February, 2025
Kaman Singh, Amit Dingwani & Shrot Gupta
Kaman Singh, previously with Chemoil Adani, Gulf Petrochem, Integr8 Fuels, GP Global and Oleo Energy, has joined Axiom Global Oil & Gas Trading DMCC in Dubai as Senior Trading Manager. Tel: + 971 5 5725 5150; Email: [email protected]. Amit Dingwani, previously with Gujarat Marine, Chemoil Adani, Gulf Petroleum and Oleo Energy, has joined as Head of Operations and Shipping. Email: [email protected]. Shrot Gupta, previously with Sea Crown Marine Services DMCC, has also joined as Bunker Trader and Operations. Email: [email protected].
February, 2025
Shahid Malik
Shahid Malik, previously with Faisal Marine Oil Services and Steadfast Bunkering Services in Karachi and OW Bunker, Glander International Bunkering, Prima Marine, Vision Plus Fuel Trading, Ocean Links Petroleum and Meta Energy Fuel Trading in Dubai, has joined Optimum Marine Fuels as a Senior Bunker Trader. Tel: +971 5 0160 8718; Email: [email protected].
February, 2025
Aleyna Yesim Dulger
Aleyna Yesim Dulger, previously with KPI OceanConnect in London, has joined Dan-Bunkering in Dubai as a bunker trader. Tel: +971 4429 5612; Mob: +971 5 2107 8126; Email: [email protected].
February, 2025
Tenaz Postwala
Tenaz Postwala, previously with Oilmar Shipping and Chartering, has joined FLEX Commodities DMCC as Business Manager in Dubai. Tel: +971 4380 5900; Email: [email protected]. Matthew Warner has joined as a bunker trader.
February, 2025
Anders Bonnelykke
Anders Bonnelykke has been promoted from Senior Trader to Trading Manager at Monjasa in Dubai. Tel: +971 4420 8600; Email: [email protected].
February, 2025
Phinu Philip
Phinu Philip, previously with ENOC in Dubai, Shell and PetroChina International in Singapore, and Coral Energy and Montfort in Dubai, has been appointed Head of Fuel at BGN. Email: [email protected].
February, 2025
Christian Laurenborg
Christian Laurenborg, previously with Maersk Oil Trading, Shell, Lukoil Soca, Litasco and Mercuria Energy Trading, has joined SOCAR Trading in Dubai as Head of Fuel Oil. Tel: +971 4541 2700; Email: [email protected].
February, 2025
2024
Domun Sharma
Domun Sharma has been promoted to the position of Marine & Aviation Manager at Vivo Energy in Mauritius, taking over from Vy-Anne Young who is now Retail Manager.
December, 2024
Kido Kimihiro & Varghese Jenin Jacob
Kido Kimihiro, previously with Consort Bunkers and Toyota Tsusho in Singapore before becoming General Manager of Toyota Tsusho in London, has joined Nautical Supply International DMCC in Dubai as a broker. Tel: +971 54 755 4400; Email: [email protected]. Varghese Jenin Jacob, previously with Integr8 Fuels and Propeller Fuels, has also joined as a broker. Tel: +971 54 202 6222; Email: [email protected].
December, 2024
Farid Babayev
Farid Babayev, previously with Dan-Bunkering in Dubai, has joined ElbOil Middle East DMCC as a trader. Email: [email protected].
December, 2024
Nikolaos Lazarikos
Nikolaos Lazarikos, previously a bunker trader with Termoil in Athens and Bunker Head with Milaha in Dohar, has joined Shipoil in Dubai as Trading Manager. Tel: +971 54 533 1570; Email: [email protected].
December, 2024
Dirk de Bruyn
Dirk de Bruyn, previously with Shell in Zambia, South Africa and Ghana, Oryx Energies in Tanzania, Total Energies in Singapore, Paris, and the Dominican Republic, has joined VPS in Fujairah as General Manager – Middle East and Africa. Tel: +971 9222 8152; Email: [email protected].
December, 2024
