Domestic Crude:

Sempra Energy Trading ® is a major market maker in the US mid-continent physical crude market with pricing alternatives either fixed or indexed to posted prices or NYMEX averages.

Refined Petroleum Products:

Sempra Energy Trading ® is active in all petroleum products supply and trading throughout Europe, Asia and the US. We partner with major refineries and utilities to satisfy their risk management requirements by the use of swaps, options and futures. We actively trade a complete range of products: condensates, naphtha, gasoline, jet fuel, heating oil and residual fuel oil.

North Sea Physical Trading:

Sempra Energy Trading ® participates in the actively traded North Sea crude oil markets, in particular, Brent BFO and its derivatives. To minimize exposure to market fluctuations, the Brent traders supply their customers with physical crude oil and a host of associated risk management products.

Derivatives:

Our Oil Derivatives Group develops strategies to aid customers in limiting their exposure to fluctuating oil prices. Our products cover everything from basic swaps to complex derivatives.

Trading means doing business. The term petroleum trading descrbies the financial operations associated with commerce in hydrocarbon cargoes. The organisation of this business is complex.All the major oil companies have trading subsidiaries. Their main objective is to ensure a regular supply of crude oil to their refineries, to meet the oil supply demands of the processing plant at any one time.

The Traders’ role

The traders’ role is to purchase the oil that is necessary in terms of quality and quantity a little time in advance. But if we talk about selling, we automatically talk also about buying. A skilful trader can quite possibly buy a cargo of oil at a rather low price to quickly resell it at a profit, if others need the cargo more than he does and are ready to pay the price. So, it is not rare for a cargo of oil to change ownership during transport, sometimes several times: destined initially for the United States, it is purchased during transport by a refiner in Rotterdam in the Netherlands and finally finishes up at the Fos-sur-Mer refinery, which had a more pressing need for it. The trader also handles negotiations for the finished products produced by the refineries. And of course, if the company doesn’t need it for its own refineries, he handles the sale of crude oil that it owns. Traders buy and sell cargoes on a real market, organised on a worldwide basis; dealing in quantities of oil which exist physically and which are due to be transported shortly or are even already in transport. These markets are called spot-markets.

THE SHOW THAT MEANS BUSINESS Produced by the Texas Grocery and Convenience Association (TGCA) and Texas Petroleum Marketers and Convenience Store Association (TPCA). The Texas Food & Fuel Expo is the largest industry event in the southwest. Leaders in the Grocery, Supermarket, C-Store, Wholesale, and Petroleum Marketing industries attend to view and learn more about new and current products and services.
TGCA & TPCA holds its annual conventions in conjunction with the Texas Food & Fuel Expo. Additional networking activities include, Golf and Clay Tournaments, Casino Party, Opening Night Gala, Inspirational Breakfast, and TGCA Awards Breakfast or TPCA Chairman's Breakfast.

Exhibit Details

Exhibits for the 2009 Expo are already 84 % SOLD. This is the best opportunity for suppliers to network with the individuals who make and influence purchasing decisions for grocery, supermarkets, c-stores, and petroleum marketing throughout Texas. If you purchase or supply products or services for the grocery, supermarket, c-store, and petroleum marketing industry, you need to be here!

Murphy Exploration & Production Company, (Murphy EXPRO) is engaged worldwide in crude oil and natural gas exploration and production. Murphy EXPRO is headquartered in Houston, Texas. In 1999, Murphy opened an office in Kuala Lumpur to oversee its E&P activities in Malaysia. Murphy Oil USA, Inc., (MOUSA) is engaged in refining, marketing and transportation of petroleum products in the United States. It is headquartered in El Dorado at Murphy's corporate offices. MOUSA's refineries are in Meraux, Louisiana, and Superior, Wisconsin. A division of MOUSA, Murphy USA Marketing Co. operates retail gasoline stations under the Murphy USA® brand across 20 states in the U.S. These are high-volume, low-cost retail gasoline stations, primarily in the parking areas of Wal-Mart Supercenters. The first Murphy USA station was opened in December 1996. MOUSA also operates a network of 12 Company-owned terminals. These terminals, along with numerous third-party terminals, provide fuel supply to retail and branded wholesale stations throughout 23 states. Murphy’s refining and marketing operations are conducted through wholly-owned subsidiaries including Murphy Oil USA, Inc. based in El Dorado, Arkansas, and Murco Petroleum Ltd., a U.K. subsidiary serviced by Murphy Eastern Oil Company, based in London, England. Petroleum products are marketed through extensive product distribution systems under the Murphy USA and SPUR brands in the U.S. and under the Murco and Jet brands in the U.K. Our downstream operations include a 125,000 barrel-a-day refinery in Meraux, Louisiana, which produces refined petroleum products for distribution in the Gulf Coast market, and a 35,000 barrel-a-day refinery in Superior, Wisconsin, which serves the Upper Midwest. Operations in the United Kingdom are centered on our 108,000 barrel-a-day refinery in Milford Haven, Wales. Murphy’s marketing collaboration with Wal-Mart continues to grow at an impressive rate. Presently the number of high-volume retail gasoline stations operating in Wal-Mart parking areas throughout the Southeast and Upper Midwest regions is nearing 1,000, giving Murphy a unique niche in the U.S. marketplace. Additionally, High-volume sales coupled with very low operating costs giving us a distinct competitive advantage. In 2006 Murphy expanded its operation to include a new full size stand alone C-Store under the Murphy Express name.

Sonol is one of the three largest petroleum marketing companies in Israel, with a chain of more than 200 branded public service stations and more than 70 convenience stores, visited daily by over 85,000 customers, a number which is growing monthly. Sonol markets a full line of branded lubricants, grease and related product which are blended and packaged in the Company's Haifa plant and distributed nationwide to its industrial , commercial , agricultural , transportation and governmental clients.