Trust Rail Global Fuel Trade
TarangauWe Fuel Trade
Tarangau is building the operating system for global fuel and crude-oil commerce — compliance, settlement, logistics, and embedded trade finance unified into one regulator-grade platform.
A USD 10 trillion industry. Still running on email chains, fax machines, and letter-of-credit paperwork that takes weeks to clear.
Every cargo depends on a chain of trust: the right counterparty, the right documentation, clean compliance, available credit. Today each of those steps happens in a different system — or no system at all. Trades stall. Capital sits frozen. Suppliers can't prove clean title. Buyers can't verify cargo status. Bankers reject applications not because the trade is bad, but because the data to prove it doesn't exist.
Days, not minutes
A single letter-of-credit amendment can force a full reissuance — and days of demurrage while tankers wait.
$2.5T left on the table
74% of rejected trade-finance applications fail for lack of information, not actual credit risk.
One bad vessel sinks the deal
Shadow fleets cycle through multiple name changes and sail with their AIS trackers disabled.
Prices built on fewer than 5 trades
Some oil price benchmarks are assessed on as few as five transactions per window.
Built, deployed, and running today.
Live vessel tracking, deal pipeline, and compliance control — rendered here exactly as our desk runs it. A window, not a mockup; identifying details redacted.
| Vessel | Route | Status | ETA |
|---|---|---|---|
| MV ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ | POM → LAE | Laden | ETA 14:20 |
| MV ▓▓▓▓▓ | MEL → POM | Ballast | ETA 2d 06h |
| MV ▓▓▓▓▓▓ | JEB → SIN | At berth | Loading |
| MV ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ | SIN → HIR | Laden | ETA 4d 11h |
- TSR-2026-0▓▓Jet A-1 · 30kt
- KYC ✓
- Docs ✓
- Finance ✓
- Settle
- TSR-2026-0▓▓MGO · 12kt
- KYC ✓
- Docs ✓
- Finance
- Settle
- TSR-2026-0▓▓ULP 92 · 8kt
- KYC ✓
- Docs
- Finance
- Settle
- Sanctions screening — all parties & vessel✓ Cleared 06:41 UTC
- KYB evidence pack✓ 9 / 9 verified
- Bill-of-lading verification○ Pending inspection
- ESG & carbon documentation✓ Generated
Screens fail closed — any hit halts the lane until a human clears it.
- Multi-source lead generation and contact enrichment.
- Buyer–supplier matching by product, corridor, and fit.
- Personalised outreach and follow-up sequencing.
- Reply qualification and opportunity scoring.
- LOI, contract, and document tracking by company and deal.
- Embedded KYC, sanctions screening, and audit visibility.
- Centralised pipeline, approvals, and workflow control.
- Logistics and vessel context for execution-sensitive trades.
One platform. The entire trade lifecycle.
Today a single cargo touches a dozen disconnected tools, with no source of truth. Tarangau replaces that fragmented stack with one ordered rail — every party, every document, every payment in the same place, across eight modules.
One deal, end to end.
Follow a single cargo through the rail — matched, screened, contracted, financed, shipped, and settled in days instead of weeks.
- RFQ & Match: Buyer intent matched to verified supply by product, corridor, and fit.
- KYC & Screening: Every party and vessel screened before anything moves. Fails closed.
- Contract: Terms structured, clauses checked against template, e-signed on the rail.
- Finance: A bank-ready package assembled from the verified trade itself.
- Cargo: Live AIS, port, and inspection data fused with the bill of lading.
- Settlement: Payment and title release together — atomic delivery-versus-payment.
The corridor we're wiring.
One corridor. Three anchor markets. Four regions in scope. AUS → APAC → MENA → the UAE is the route we’re wiring into a single settlement and trust rail — and the route every other module on the platform is built around.
Built for every seat at the table.
You're moving barrels across six time zones, managing credit exposure, and making sub-second pricing decisions — while your back office is still reconciling last week's cargo. Tarangau gives you a single front-to-back view of every live trade, with automated confirmation, reconciliation, and settlement, so you can focus on the next opportunity, not the last paperwork.
Early AI and automation deployments reduce labour effort across the deal lifecycle by 20–40%.
— McKinsey 2026
You sit on supply. But accessing global buyers, proving compliance to international counterparties, and moving away from opaque bilateral pricing is complex and politically sensitive. Tarangau gives NOCs a transparent, auditable trade channel that meets international standards — and builds the kind of counterparty track record that opens better financing terms.
Partnerships and JV models in oil and products alone could create an additional $20 billion in trading value.
— McKinsey 2026
You need fuel on time, at price, with verified provenance. In a market flooded with shadow-fleet risk and opaque chains of title, the cost of buying wrong is catastrophic. Tarangau verifies every counterparty, tracks every vessel, and delivers cargo documentation that stands up to regulatory scrutiny — before the cargo sails.
The 2026 Strait of Hormuz crisis left Asian importers scrambling for bilateral deals outside the conventional trading framework.
— Reuters 2026
You've got product. What you often lack is access to creditworthy buyers, visibility into the financing pipeline, and the documentation infrastructure to clear international compliance requirements quickly. Tarangau puts your inventory on a platform where qualified buyers can find you, verify you, and trade with you — without a bank of intermediaries in between.
40.3% of fuel invoices still arrive as paper or unstructured email attachments — making suppliers invisible to automated buyer procurement systems.
— Skymetrix 2026
You need visibility without friction. Tarangau provides real-time transaction transparency, automated compliance reporting, and full audit trails that meet international standards — without slowing down trade. Monitor cross-border flows, track sanctions compliance, and access structured data that supports policy decisions. Our platform gives regulators the oversight required to identify systemic risks while enabling markets to function efficiently.
“Transparency is an integral component of the regulatory framework that ensures the safety and soundness and enduring preeminence of financial markets.”
— CFTC Commissioner Kristin N. Johnson, 2024
Regulator-grade. Not startup-grade.
Before any professional buyer or NOC onboards, they ask the same three questions: is this compliant, is this real, and can I trust the data? Here is the answer.
AML / KYC Screening
Automated counterparty verification against international sanctions lists — OFAC, FATF, and EU/UK databases. Every participant is screened before their first trade.
Immutable Audit Trail
Every document, signature, price, and cargo event is timestamped on an immutable ledger — a full chain of custody from first offer to final delivery.
ESG & Carbon Documentation
Embedded reporting generates the cargo-level ESG data international trade-finance institutions require — making trades eligible for green-labelled financing.
Bill of Lading Digitisation
Electronic BLs that are legally equivalent to paper originals under UNCITRAL Model Law — eliminating the last physical bottleneck in settlement.
Multi-jurisdictional Compliance
Built to meet the requirements of regulators in Singapore, Australia, the EU, and the Pacific — with ongoing updates as frameworks evolve.
Bank-Ready Data Packages
Every completed trade generates a structured export that submits directly to trade-finance banks — cutting KYC and due-diligence time from weeks to hours.
The intelligence layer for global fuel commerce.
Tarangau Intelligence is an intelligent orchestration platform for energy commerce — a fabric of specialised agents that discover counterparties, screen every party and vessel, read every document, price every risk, and coordinate every step of the trade. Agents propose. Your people approve. Nothing moves without judgment.
Opportunity Discovery
LiveAgents plan and execute multi-source hunts for qualified buyers and suppliers by product, corridor, and role — then hand a ranked, verified list to your desk.
Pipeline at machine scale, judged by humans.
Compliance Screening
LiveEvery counterparty and vessel screened against OFAC, EU/UK, and UN lists — continuously, not per-deal. On any doubt, the lane halts. The screen fails closed.
One bad actor can't reach the network.
Document Intelligence
LiveLOIs, contracts, and cargo documents parsed into structured deal records in minutes, with fraud markers and off-template clauses flagged before signature.
Contract review in minutes, with a fraud shield.
Relationship Intelligence
LiveReplies read, intent qualified, follow-ups timed and drafted — and no message leaves without passing a quality gate and a human approval.
No opportunity dies of neglect; no email embarrasses the desk.
Trade Coordination
In buildAgents drive each deal through its stage gates — chasing the blocking document, watching the vessel, readying settlement — and route every exception to the right human, early.
Days off every cycle; small problems stay small.
Risk & Pricing Intelligence
In buildCorridor spreads, counterparty exposure, and disruption scenarios computed continuously against live positions.
See the risk before it prices in.
Approval-gated autonomy. Every agent on the fabric proposes; licensed operators approve. Full audit trail, jurisdiction-ready reporting, and a read-only regulator overlay — intelligence designed for a regulated market, not around it.
Capabilities marked LIVE run on Tarangau's own operating desk today. IN BUILD capabilities are in active development on the same rail.
Sanctions waves, strait closures, shadow fleets, thin benchmarks, demand shocks — the fuel market's antagonists are not going away. The answer is not prediction. It is infrastructure that notices first, checks everything, and keeps every option priced.
The landscape is consolidating around those with access to capital, infrastructure, and physical-flow data. The window to build is now.
“Those without access to capital, data, and AI will participate less in high-margin events.”
The consolidation is here
McKinsey's 2026 commodity report finds value migrating to the trading houses that combine deployable capital, sophisticated data infrastructure, and a willingness to invest in AI. The energy-trading platform market is compounding at 13.1% a year — from USD 3.24B in 2025 toward USD 5.97B by 2030.
Trade finance is being rebuilt
The ADB's 2026 survey found 87% of respondents see digitalisation as essential to closing the $2.5T trade-finance gap, and 76% point to better data collection as the unlock. A 2024 WTO and multilateral-bank declaration committed to interoperable marketplaces for emerging-market supply-chain trade.
The Pacific is opening up
As recently as May 2026, PNG's government was in active talks with Sinopec, PetroChina, and Ampol to break up its fuel monopoly — explicitly seeking reputable global fuel traders to make Papua New Guinea a strategic hub to supply the Pacific.
- 1Phase 1
APAC pilot
First live cargo settled. Regulatory approval secured. Onboard participants engaged.
- 2Phase 2
Regional expansion
Dubai office stood up. Solomon Islands and Fiji corridors live. 50+ counterparties onboarded.
- 3Phase 3
APAC trust rail
ASEAN expansion. Embedded finance scaling. Regulator network effects compound.
The operating system for global fuel commerce.
Fuel powers everything — hospitals, flights, shipping, agriculture, national economies. Yet the infrastructure used to buy and sell it globally is patchy, opaque, and dangerously fragile. A single bank’s decision can cut off a country’s aviation supply. A single bad vessel can expose an entire supply chain to sanctions. A single missing document can freeze a cargo worth tens of millions.
Tarangau is being built to fix that at the infrastructure level — not as a marketplace sitting on top of the broken system, but as the system itself. Compliance, settlement, logistics, and finance unified into one regulator-grade platform. The goal: the default settlement and trust layer for global fuel commerce by 2030 — starting with Papua New Guinea, expanding through the Pacific, then ASEAN, then MENA via Dubai.
The USD 10 trillion industry doesn’t need another software tool. It needs a new foundation.
Cross-border fuel trade still runs on email threads, PDFs, and bilateral trust. Good counterparties get locked out by paperwork friction. Capital sits trapped while real barrels move. Regulators see fuzzy data, late.
We’re building Tarangau because clean counterparties, good barrels, and real demand should not be blocked by spreadsheets and settlement lag. Compliance should be a feature, not a tax. Good behaviour should be the fast lane.
We build like traders, think like compliance, and ship like product people.
Infrastructure with a dividend.
of platform revenuecommitted in perpetuity
Tarangau is a commercial company, but the markets we operate in are some of the most underserved on earth. Every efficiency we unlock — faster settlement, cheaper FX, accessible trade finance — flows back to economies that have been priced out of modern commodity infrastructure for decades. We commit five percent of platform revenue, in perpetuity, to two causes directly tied to our pilot region.
Red Cross donations
Funding humanitarian aid and medical supply distribution for PNG and Pacific Island communities — bringing access to medicines and essential healthcare to remote populations currently underserved.
Energy access in remote communities
Co-funding last-mile fuel and clean-energy distribution in PNG highland and island communities currently locked out of reliable supply.
Environmental
Leaner trade, provable footprint.
Digital documentation replaces courier chains and paper on every cargo — and cargo-level ESG data makes trades eligible for green-labelled finance.
Social
Markets that include, not exclude.
Five percent of platform revenue funds Red Cross programs and last-mile energy access across PNG and the Pacific, in perpetuity.
Governance
Auditable by design.
Immutable audit trails, continuous sanctions screening, and a read-only regulator overlay make good behaviour the fast lane.
If you are a foundation, organisation, or individual who wants to back the Red Cross donations fund alongside us, you can contribute directly. One hundred percent of contributed funds flow to the program — Tarangau covers all administration costs.
Donate to the Impact FundGet in touch.
Office locations
- Melbourne, Australia (HQ)
- Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea (Pilot)
- Dubai, UAE (planned)
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