Mercuria Hires Crude Traders From Total’s Trading Arm
- They’ll focus on areas including Middle East and paper markets
- Mercuria hired high-profile LNG traders from Shell last year
Mercuria Energy Group Ltd. has hired oil traders Naoaki Matsuo and Thibault Drillon from the trading arm of French oil major TotalEnergies SE to join its expanding energy team, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
The duo will start in the middle of 2025, the people said, asking not to be named as the information isn’t public. Matsuo and Drillon will be focused on areas including physical Middle East crude and paper markets. They were last based in Singapore and Geneva, Switzerland, respectively, according to their LinkedIn profiles.