Notice. FG Capital Advisors is a trade and capital advisory firm focused on commodities, structured trade finance, and private credit. The firm provides financial modelling, due diligence support, structuring, and sponsor side advice around borrowing base facilities, pre export and prepayment structures, inventory and receivables finance, and LC or guarantee backed working capital. FG Capital Advisors is not a bank, lender, credit insurer, broker dealer, or retail investment adviser and does not issue loans, guarantees, or insurance products. Any facility, guarantee, LC, or investment is provided by regulated counterparties under their own licences and documentation. All potential transactions are subject to KYC and AML checks, sanctions screening, credit and investment committee decisions, independent legal and tax advice on the client side, and formal agreements with those regulated entities.
Oil & Gas Trade Finance
Crude, refined products, LPG, LNG, and bunkers move through chains of producers, traders, storage operators, and off takers that depend on reliable credit capacity. Banks and funds look closely at contract structure, pricing formulas, quality and location risk, demurrage exposure, and sanctions before they sign off.
FG Capital Advisors supports oil and gas sponsors that need institution grade trade finance structures and lender engagement, not generic working capital lines. Mandates focus on borrowing base and pre export facilities, LC backed flows, and receivables structures that can withstand detailed credit review.
Request Oil & Gas Trade Finance ConsultationWhat We Cover In Oil & Gas Trade Finance
Oil and gas mandates focus on documented flows and assets rather than theoretical structures. Typical work includes:
- Borrowing base and reserve based lending style structures secured on inventory in tanks, storage facilities, and in transit, with clear eligibility, advance rates, and control mechanics.
- Pre export and prepayment facilities against long term offtake contracts, including assignment of receivables, security over export proceeds, and ring fenced cash sweep arrangements.
- Import and export LCs, UPAS LCs, and SBLC or guarantee backed obligations tied to FOB, CIF, DAP and similar Incoterms, including confirmation and silent risk participation where required.
- Receivables purchase and payables finance structures for sales to investment grade and strong sub investment grade counterparties, including concentration limits and dilution assumptions.
- Integration of hedging and FX management into facility terms where exposures to crack spreads, basis risk, and currency mismatch are material to credit outcomes.
- Restructuring of stressed oil and gas trade facilities where margin calls, price shocks, or covenant breaches require a revised collateral and covenant framework.
Facilities are designed around actual lifting schedules, storage capacity, contractual pricing grids, and margin history, not generic commodity assumptions.
Who This Oil & Gas Service Is For
The oil and gas trade finance consulting line is aimed at counterparties with real flows and established operations:
- Independent and integrated oil and gas producers with export flows and offtake agreements.
- Trading houses and physical marketers active in crude, products, LPG, LNG, and bunkers.
- Storage and terminal operators, distributors, and bunkering firms with inventory heavy working capital.
- Industrial end users with significant hydrocarbon feedstock imports seeking structured trade lines instead of unsecured working capital facilities.
Mandates are not aimed at shell entities, undocumented “title arbitrage” proposals, or clients seeking instruments without underlying trade or balance sheet support.
Pricing For Oil & Gas Trade Finance Mandates
Fees reflect sector complexity and the expectation that sponsors want bank grade work. All fees are quoted in writing and paid by bank transfer. Third party costs such as legal counsel, collateral managers, surveyors, and inspectors sit outside these ranges.
- Oil & Gas Trade Finance Diagnostic High level feasibility and options memo based on trade flows, counterparties, and existing facilities. Typical fee range USD 20,000 to 35,000.
- Single Facility Structuring Mandate One borrower and one core facility, such as an oil borrowing base, pre export facility, or LC backed trade line, including modelling and lender pack. Typical fee range USD 50,000 to 120,000.
- Multi Facility or Multi Bank Programme Frameworks across several facilities, assets, or jurisdictions. Typical fee range USD 125,000 to 250,000+.
As a rule, at least fifty percent of the agreed advisory fee is payable on signing the engagement letter, with the remainder due on delivery of the main structuring outputs. Requests for success fee only mandates are not accepted.
Sponsors with advisory budgets below approximately USD 25,000 for oil and gas trade finance will not be a fit for this service.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do you arrange financing for speculative oil trades without contracts?
No. Engagements require documented trade flows, identifiable counterparties, and verifiable financial statements. Proposals without underlying contracts, storage arrangements, or credible balance sheets are not taken on.
Can you work with my existing banks?
Yes, subject to conflicts and relationship dynamics. Many oil and gas mandates involve restructuring and scaling existing lines with current lenders rather than introducing entirely new banks.
Do you focus on upstream, midstream, or downstream?
Mandates typically sit around physical trading, midstream and downstream flows where trade and working capital needs are most pronounced, but upstream sponsors with export offtake can also be in scope where project structures and reserves are bankable.
How do you handle sanctions and ESG concerns?
Sanctions, AML, and ESG constraints are treated as hard parameters from day one. Transactions involving jurisdictions or counterparties outside credible lender appetite are declined early. Sponsors must accept that some routes, grades, and counterpart combinations are not financeable.
What information do you need to start?
At minimum, audited financial statements where available, management accounts, detailed trade flow and margin history, key contracts, storage and logistics arrangements, current facility documentation, and corporate structure charts.
Oil and gas trade finance is binary. Either the structure, data, and counterparties clear credit, or they do not. Sponsors who turn up with a well prepared case move faster and secure better terms than those who improvise their way through the process.
If you are ready to run a serious oil and gas trade finance process, share a concise overview of your flows, counterparties, and facility objectives. FG Capital Advisors will revert with a view on fit and a fixed fee quote within the ranges above.
Submit Oil & Gas Trade Finance EnquiryDisclosure. FG Capital Advisors provides financial modelling, analytical, and advisory services. The firm does not originate, offer, or sell securities, loans, deposits, guarantees, or insurance products and does not accept client money. Any trade finance facility, SBLC, bank guarantee, documentary LC, UPAS LC, derivative, or investment product referenced on this page is carried out by regulated entities under their own licences, terms, and documentation. Oil and gas trade finance consulting informs decisions that involve credit, performance, operational, legal, policy, and market risk. Nothing on this page is a recommendation or a solicitation to enter into any transaction or to buy or sell any financial product. Any engagement with FG Capital Advisors is subject to internal approval, conflict checks, KYC and AML checks and sanctions screening where required, and the terms of a formal engagement letter.
