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BGN Sponsored The London Energy Club’s 15th Anniversary

BGN, a global leader in energy and commodities trading, supported the 15th Anniversary of The London Energy Club, held on 16 January 2025 in London. The special event themed “The Mediterranean Energy-Geopolitics-Investment Nexus”, focused on the intricate challenges and opportunities in the Mediterranean region’s energy, geopoliticaland investment landscape. The milestone event, moderated by Mehmet Öğütçü, […]

Rüya Bayegan Receives Lifetime Achievement Award for Women’s Leadership in Energy

Rüya Bayegan, Group CEO of BGN, was recognized with the New Silk Road Lifetime Achievement Award for the Advancement of Women’s Leadership in the International Energy Markets. The award was presented by ADNOC Trading CEO President Ahmad Bin Thalith, at the Gulf Intelligence Energy Markets Forum, in Fujairah, UAE, on 1 October 2024. The international […]

BGN’s Swiss Head Talks Diversity at Geneva Women in Leadership Event

Global business leaders must be aware that the world needs to allocate more explicit attentionand dedicated resources, for gender equality. After all, research has shown that companies are typically more profitable under female leadership. Men are nonetheless still dominating decision-making and not enough women are invited to sit on companies’ boards of directors, according to […]

BGN Sees ECAs as Matchmakers in Developing Export Finance Ecosystems 

During the past two years, government-backed finance bodies have increasingly turned to international commodity traders to help support their export strategies and efforts to secure supply of vital imports. BGN believes that export credit agencies, or ECAs, will continue to play an important role in bringing together traders and banks to facilitate trade in energy […]

BGN Endorses IEA Clean Cooking Declaration for Africa 

BGN has joined governments, international organizations and other private sector companies in commending a new pledge to extend access to cleaner cooking facilities across Africa. A summit in Paris hosted by the International Energy Agency (IEA) produced a global declaration on the importance of developing financing, policies and partnerships on the topic. The IEA also […]

BGN Confirms USD370m Ship Financing with Five Leading Middle East Gulf Banks

BGN and Abu Dhabi’s Al Seer Marine secured funding from some of the Gulf region’s leading banks to support the construction of three state-of-the-art Very Large Gas Carriers (VLGCs) in South Korea and Japan. Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank (ADIB) led the closure in March 2024 of a USD235 million syndicated transaction, bringing the total financing […]

BGN Secures US$100m Financing Facility with Abu Dhabi’s ADEX, Mashreq & ADCB

BGN signed an agreement with Abu Dhabi Exports Office (ADEX), the export financing arm of Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD)and with the banks Mashreq and Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank (ADCB), for a financing arrangement of up to US$100 million. The agreement was signed by Khalil Al Mansoori, Acting Director General of the Abu Dhabi […]

BGN Commissions HHI to Build Two Very Large Ships for LPG and Ammonia Trading 

BGN has confirmed an order for two newbuild VLGCs (Very Large Gas Carriers) to be constructed by Hyundai Heavy Industries by 2027. The vessels will support BGN’s successful LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) trading platform and will be able to carry ammonia, another essential product for the global energy transition. BGN is making long-term commitments by […]

BGN Adds Two Gas Tankers, Developing Pertamina Partnership 

BGN Adds Two Gas Tankers, Developing Pertamina Partnership BGN welcomed two modern, efficient Very Large Gas Carriers (VLGC) to its fleet, thanks to the ongoing partnership with Indonesia’s Pertamina International Shipping (PIS). The launch of the vessels was officiated by the President Director of PT Pertamina (Persero) Nicke Widyawati, Group CEO of BGN Ruya Bayegan, […]