| Some of the world’s biggest commodities traders are buying up key pieces of the infrastructure that’s driving the US energy production boom. Secretive commodities investors like Vitol Group, Trafigura Beheer B.V. and Mercuria Energy Group are among the firms amassing physical assets like shale oil wells, oil and gas pipelines and offshore drilling projects in the US, Bloomberg reports.
Why? The controversial fracking boom, which has driven US energy production sharply higher in recent years. Commodities firms want to get a piece of that production. They also see opportunities for arbitrage—that is profiting from price discrepancies—in the sometimes inefficient US oil and gas transport system...............................................Full Article: Source
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