Trust Rail · Global Fuel Trade
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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 fax.
Digital Infrastructure for Global Fuel Trade
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.
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.
Every counterparty is screened against OFAC, FATF, and EU/UK lists before their first trade — so compliance becomes a feature of the rail, not a bottleneck on the deal.
Payment and title release together the moment agreed conditions are met, collapsing 7–18 day LC cycles into minutes and freeing working capital.
Every completed trade generates a bank-ready data package — turning assets that were invisible to financiers into ones they can actually fund.
Live AIS, port, and inspection data is fused with bill-of-lading status in a single view, so every party sees the same truth at the same time.
Tamper-evident, cryptographically verifiable documents replace scanned PDFs and email attachments, with a full chain of custody from first offer to delivery.
A portable, auditable counterparty track record builds over time — opening better financing terms and faster onboarding on every subsequent trade.
Built, deployed, and running today.
Live vessel tracking and a full operations dashboard — the platform our desk runs on.
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
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.
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.
Built by operators. Designed for regulators.
Tarangau is an Australian-founded digital trade-infrastructure company building the operating system for the global fuel and crude-oil industry. We replace the fragmented mix of email, PDFs, and bilateral trust that currently moves USD 10 trillion of energy each year with a single, regulator-grade platform.
Headquartered in Melbourne with a live pilot corridor in Papua New Guinea and a planned Dubai office for APAC and MENA expansion.
Our thesis is simple: the world’s largest commodity market deserves real infrastructure, not another marketplace.
One platform. Every step of the trade.
Most fuel deals touch fifteen counterparties, eight document types, and three currencies before settlement. Tarangau collapses that chain into a single platform — every party, every document, every payment, every regulator on the same rail. From counterparty onboarding to final settlement, in days instead of weeks.
Onboard once.
Counterparties complete a single KYC / KYB / AML check and join the network. Trust travels with them — no repeated due diligence per deal.
Transact end-to-end.
Quote, contract, document, finance, ship, inspect, and settle inside one dashboard. Every action is logged, tamper-evident, and visible to permissioned parties only.
Settle atomically.
Payment and title release together via smart-contract escrow. Working capital unlocked in days, not weeks. FX handled in-platform.
Seven modules. One rail.
KYC / KYB / AML Engine
Counterparty trust layer with continuous screening. Onboard once, transact everywhere.
Smart-Contract Settlement
Atomic delivery-versus-payment. No more 7–18 day settlement lag.
Embedded Trade Finance
Working-capital injection at the deal level, including underserved sub-USD 10M tickets banks ignore.
Logistics & Vessel Tracking
Live AIS, port, and inspection data fused with bill-of-lading status in one view.
Document Vault
Tamper-evident storage for BLs, LCs, COAs, SGS reports, and customs paperwork. Cryptographically verifiable.
FX & Settlement Rails
Multi-currency settlement with stablecoin optionality for emerging-market corridors.
Risk & Pricing Intelligence
Live pricing differentials, exposure dashboards, and counterparty risk scoring.
Regulator Overlay
A read-only window for central banks, customs, and finance ministries. Compliance becomes a feature, not a burden.
Where we’re going.
Energy is the single largest commodity market on earth, yet it runs on infrastructure designed in the 1970s. Trades clear in weeks. Capital sits trapped in transit. Emerging-market buyers absorb FX volatility on every cargo. Regulators see flows weeks late, if at all. Fraud is endemic and largely undetectable in real time.
We are building Tarangau to be the default settlement and trust layer for global fuel commerce by 2030 — starting with Papua New Guinea, expanding through the Pacific (Solomon Islands, Fiji, Timor-Leste), then ASEAN, then MENA via Dubai.
APAC pilot
First live cargo settled. Regulatory approval secured. Onboard participants engaged.
Regional Expansion
Dubai office stood up. Solomon Islands and Fiji corridors live. 50+ counterparties onboarded.
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. A trust rail for global fuel trade.
The USD 10 trillion industry doesn’t need another software tool. It needs a new foundation.
Operating across three corridors.
The corridor we’re wiring.
AUS → APAC → MENA → the UAE — the regions we’re wiring into a single settlement and trust rail, and the route every other module on the platform is built around.
A note from the desk.
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.
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 one 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.
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 FundInside eyrie
Eyrie is the internal operating system behind our fuel origination workflow — purpose-built to help our team identify qualified buyers and suppliers, match counterparties with greater precision, run structured outreach, and convert real commercial intent into signed LOIs.
More than a CRM, the platform combines lead generation, enrichment, counterparty matching, outreach sequencing, compliance checks, document control, and pipeline management inside one secure brokerage workspace built for complex fuel markets.
- 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.
Get in touch.
Office locations
- Melbourne, Australia (HQ)
- Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea (Pilot)
- Dubai, UAE (planned)
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