Hey,

Every day, Vitol moves 8 million barrels of oil. That's roughly the entire daily production of Saudi Arabia. It does this across 40 offices, in markets spanning crude oil, refined products, LNG, coal, power and metals. It generated $343 billion in revenue in 2025, more than the GDP of Denmark.

It has 1,800 employees.

And it is owned entirely by around 450 of them.

You won't find Vitol on any stock exchange. You won't find its CEO on the cover of Forbes. You won't find it advertising anywhere. What you will find — if you work in energy trading, shipping, or commodity logistics — is Vitol everywhere: in the tanker markets, in the charter rates, in the crude flows that underpin global energy supply.

This is its story. And the most interesting part isn't the scale. It's the structure.