Everyone in the chain is a middleman.
Physical oil and gas has a working market at the top, made up of producers, refiners and trading houses who already know each other. Below that sits a second market made almost entirely of forwarded email: mandates who hold no allocation, sellers with no title, buyers who intend to resell something nobody owns. Nothing closes, and the fees are real.
We do not trade, broker or introduce. We do two things: tell you who is on the other side of the table, and tell you whether the paperwork they sent you holds together. You pay per report. We take no commission and no position.
A certificate on paper proves nothing
Every report we issue carries a reference number that resolves only here, with an issue date and an expiry date. If a counterparty sends you one, check it before you read it.
Try WDD-4471 or WDD-2208
Who you are dealing with
- The person exists and the passport is real
- They are not on a current or previous sanctions list
- No law enforcement, regulator or adverse media match
- The company behind them exists, and who owns and runs it
- Whether it files, trades and has any history at all
- Whether a document is internally coherent and complete
Anything about the cargo
- That any cargo exists
- That the seller holds title or allocation
- That storage, tanks or vessels are real
- That either party can perform or pay
- That the deal is a good one
Two reports
Document assessment
- Missing provisions and unfinished sections
- Clauses that contradict each other
- Terms used but never defined
- Names, dates and figures that do not match across the document
- Drafting and language errors
Counterparty screening
- Sanctions, PEP, law enforcement and adverse media
- Passport validation against issuing records
- Company registration, ownership and officers
- Filing history, insolvency, charges and litigation
- A written assessment, not a page of traffic lights
How it works
You order a report on yourself
We screen the person who asked to be screened. We do not run checks on third parties who have not agreed to it.
You upload your documents
Passport and company papers, through an encrypted form. We hold them only as long as the report is valid, then delete them.
We screen and adjudicate
Data comes from a UK background screening bureau. A person reads every amber result and writes what it means in plain English.
You release it
The report is yours. You decide who sees it, and you can withdraw access. Whoever you send it to checks the reference here.
Read this before you buy
- A clean report is not a clean deal. A well drafted contract for a cargo that does not exist is still a cargo that does not exist. Screening tells you who is on the other side of the table. It tells you nothing about what they are holding.
- Screening is a snapshot. Sanctions lists change weekly. Every report carries an issue date and an expiry date on its face. After that date it is a historical record, not a current one.
- Coverage varies by country. Some checks return "unable to verify" where no authoritative record exists. That is not an adverse finding, and we say so rather than leaving you to guess.
- Document assessment is not legal advice. We report on structure, completeness and internal consistency. We do not advise on legal effect, enforceability or whether the terms are good for you.
- We do not broker. We take no commission, no success fee and no position in any transaction. We are paid for reports and nothing else.