Energy

ICAP’s Alternative Fuels team is located in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. The team brings more than 75 years of combined energy and agricultural experience. We offer brokerage services in the Biofuels, Fertilizer and NGL markets.

The ICAP Alternative Fuels desk offers a centralised liquid marketplace for the purchase of the full range of renewable fuel OTC products. We have a committed team delivering efficient, discreet and competitive brokerage services in physical, financial and renewable identification numbers (RINS) markets. We provide market coverage to major energy companies, fuel ethanol producers and marketing companies, agricultural companies, investment and commercial banks, hedge funds, and other trading companies.

Our desk provides pricing sheet, market research and analysis, making us industry leaders in the unbiased market-to-market price perspectives. We understand the industry information and our transparency eliminates the guesswork in price discovery for each product, providing our customers with a powerful advantage in the marketplace.

The increased use of biofuels and persistently high prices for traditional fuels is driving interest in renewables.

Our team in Geneva provides brokerage services for biofuels and related products, both physical and derivative, including European bioethanol, biodiesel and vegetable oils produced from rape, soya and palm.

The ICAP Energy Suisse SA team comprises of industry professionals with experience in the energy and agricultural sectors.

ICAP Energy Suisse SA is able to inform customers personally of real-time market information and our prices are published via a daily market newsletter and on our website (link). If you would be interested in being added to our daily market newsletter please send an email to contact.geneva@icap.com with a brief description of your area of interest and contact details.

ICAP Energy Suisse SA provides brokerage services for the derivative biofuels market, as both OTC and CME cleared products, such as FAME 0, RME, Soybean Oil, Palm Oil and any other feedstock, wood pellet and ethanol. This can include both certified and non-certified products and can be against the gasoil premium or stand alone, and can be arranged as spreads or other structures as required. ICAP Energy Suisse SA has the capability to register brokered trades for our customers onto either Clearport USA or Clearport Europe (subject to product availability on CME Clearport).

As brokers, we listen to your requirements and organise exclusive industry events to give traders the opportunity to meet new players in the market. Where appropriate we provide feedback to the market about best practices and strive to improve industry standards.

Our team has extensive experience in:

• Trading
• Analysis and risk management
• Energy markets
• Agricultural markets
• Financial markets

Using our market and country knowledge we can organise tenders for you. Our tailor-made solutions provide confidentiality, transparency and suitable counterparties to fit your requirements.

The screen provided by ICAP Energy Limited (“ICAP Energy”) in relation to Coal Block futures is governed by the Terms of Access to and Use of IOI Services. Terms of Access can be found here  

ICAP is the leading broker in coal derivatives and one of the major liquidity provider to utilities, producers, commodity traders, funds and banks.

We provide a hybrid of voice and screen trading avenues on a range of indices in coal futures and options by our experienced team in London. The team has been established for over ten years and has been ranked as a consistent leader by our peers in this field.

For more information, please visit www.icapenergy.com

ICAP’s Crude Oil & Refined Products desks are market leaders in Asia, Europe and the US. We span the entire petroleum spectrum: Brent, Brent Options, BFO, Urals, Fuel Oil, Fuel Oil Options, Gasoil, Gasoil Options, Gasoline, Gasoline Options, Jet Fuel, Jet Fuel Options, Jet Kerosene, Naptha, Heating Oil, Heating Oil Options, Residuals, ULSD, ULSD Options, WTI and WTI Options.

Our Crude Oil & Refined Products desks combine strong financial brokerage experience with focused knowledge and insight in petroleum exploration, procurement, production, refining, storage, transportation and marketing. Our industry expertise means we can source, market and facilitate transactions of standard and non-standardised specifications and deliveries for our customers.

ICAP’s US Crude Oil & Refined Products desks provide daily pricing sheets, making us industry leaders in unbiased marked-to-market price perspectives. We understand industry information and our transparency eliminates the guesswork in price discovery for each product brokered, providing our customers with a powerful advantage in the market.

Our UK Electricity team has been one of the leading brokers in the UK market for eight years. Contracts are based on the Electricity Forwards Agreement (EFA) calendar. The ICAP electronic trading platform offers contracts with terms ranging from individual prompt days, weeks, months, quarters and seasons up to six years out.

In the USA, we have been helping firms trade, hedge and understand the Electricity Derivatives Market since 1997. We dominate the market with more than an 80 per cent market share for NYMEX ClearPort cleared electricity options. Our Electricity desks provide daily pricing sheets, making us industry leaders in unbiased marked-to-market price perspectives. We understand industry information and our transparency eliminates the guesswork in price discovery for each product brokered, providing our customers with a powerful advantage in the market.

In Europe, ICAP Energy has been at the forefront of providing access to the markets created by the EU Carbon Emissions Allowances (ETU) scheme. More recently a liquid market has developed in Certified Emissions Reduction (CER) contracts. ICAP is now the leading broker in this still growing market offering physical and option contracts to a large customer base.

In the USA, ICAP United Inc. is a leader in emissions brokerage. Formerly United Power, we were one of the first companies to launch an emissions brokerage desk to cover these markets. Our brokers have developed deep relationships with key players in the industry ranging from financial traders to unregulated utilities to regulated utilities. From the beginning of the EPA’s Clean Air Markets Division, ICAP has been a leader in meeting our customers’ needs for buying and selling allowances. The goal of the emissions team is to provide the best advice to customers who wish to trade in these markets.

The ICAP LNG desk was established in 2012, a year where the LNG swaps market took great steps forward.

ICAP offer the broking of financial and physical LNG contracts by voice, as well as timely analysis and commentary on the global LNG market. The financial products include JKM and EAX swaps which can be dealt direct or on our electronic trading platform.

Our Middle Distillates and Fuel Oil team commenced trading in 1996. They arrange swaps and options in a wide range of refined products. These include high and low sulphur fuel, gasoil and heat cracks, jet, diesel and gasoil differentials. These swaps and options enable producers and high volume consumers to hedge their portfolios. Over the last few years the liquidity created in these markets has led to increased participation from speculators. The team covers all time zones operating from offices in London, Singapore and New Jersey.

The European Gas markets are undergoing radical restructuring as extraction from the North Sea declines, dependence on gas from Eastern Europe and LNG sources grows and wholesale markets are opened up. Our European Natural Gas desk entered the market in 2003 and has built a solid base in these rapidly emerging markets. They are a leading broker in the liquid Dutch TTF market and were the first broking team to arrange contracts in the French PEG market. Our UK Natural Gas desk was set up in 1999 and is a leading broker in the liquid NBP market and Zeebrugge. The team has consistently been voted the number one broker in the annual Energy Risk Commodity Surveys.

Customers can either trade on ICAP’s acclaimed electronic trading platform or direct with our experienced broking team. OTC physical contracts, storage capacity, financial swaps and options are all available. Time periods range from same day delivery to calendar years eight years out.

In the USA, ICAP’s Natural Gas broking desks provide a wealth of brokerage services to customers covering the hydrocarbon spectrum across the key global energy markets. Our expert brokers can source, market and facilitate natural gas transactions for standard and non-standardised specifications and deliveries, underpinned by unbiased marked-to-market price perspectives.

ICAP Energy combines strong financial brokerage experience with focused knowledge and insight in exploration, drilling, extraction, production, transmission, shipping, storage, legislation, and marketing with years of historical pricing information available to customers.

ICAP's full- service Nuclear Fuels desk assists customers in optimizing their positions in the highly volatile uranium market through creative solutions coming from our extensive knowledge of the marketplace. Our international reach and access to all of the buyers and sellers in the global marketplace provides our customers with the best opportunities to conclude transactions suitable to their business needs.

We combine strong financial brokerage experience as well as an in-depth understanding of the marketplace including uranium mining, production and procurement. We assist customers through our ability to source, market, and facilitate transactions in the spot, long-term, and financial markets.

Since being founded 20 years ago, this division has been a leader in the physical brokering of residual fuels. Our established customer base of electric utilities, major oil trading houses and investment bankers gives unparalleled insight into the fundamental price, demand and supply changes of the Residual fuels market. Whether facilitating the delivery of a 300,000 barrel international or domestic cargo to an Electric utility customer, or structuring a sale or exchange of domestic cargoes or barges between traders or oil industry majors, our experience, reputation and professionalism is evident.

The Residual fuels division is an innovative leader, bringing new brokerage risk management tools to the industry. We were instrumental in initiating a “paper market” by introducing a standardized residual fuels contract to the market and then helping to establish the liquidity, which is now evident in a strong financially settled market. This paper market covers all aspects of residual fuels trading, allowing flexibility to hedge all important sulphur specifications over short and long term calendar strips. When combined with the strength of our crude oil derivatives division, our residual desk offers the market a powerful tool for cross product spreads, options and hedging opportunities.

ICAP’s US Weather desk is a market leader across the HDD/CDD spectrum: US, EU, and Global. Our Weather Derivatives and Meteorology desks combine strong financial brokerage experience with focused knowledge and insight into financially settled options, swaps and futures based upon Heating and Cooling Days’ indices. Our industry expertise allows ICAP’s Weather desk to source, market and facilitate transactions of standard and non-standardised specifications and deliveries.

ICAP’s US Weather desk provides pricing sheets and has become an industry leader in providing unbiased “marked-to-market” price perspectives. Our transparency eliminates the guesswork in price discovery for each product brokered.