BGN Partners With DRC Government To Launch Digital Commodity Center
Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) | Houston, Texas, USA 8 August 2025 – BGN Group, represented by our American subsidiary BGN INT US LLC, today announces our partnership with the government of the DRC’s Centre for Expertise, Evaluation and Certification of Precious and Semi-Precious Mineral Substances (CEEC). The partnership establishes the DRC’s first […]
BGN “Touches the Ice” with First Physical LNG Delivery to Germany and Secures Major Egypt LNG Deal
Geneva, 22 June 2025 – BGN proudly announces a landmark achievement: the successful discharge of its inaugural physical LNG cargo at Germany’s Mukran FSRU* facility by the chartered vessel Celsius Gandhinagar. This milestone, known in the industry as “touching the ice,” marks BGN’s official entry into the physical LNG market and signals a new era […]
BGN and Al Seer Marine Launch International LPG Shipping Joint Venture with AED 660 Million Deal
Global Energy Trader BGN Strengthens International Supply Chains with New Mid-Size Tanker Fleet Abu Dhabi, 2 June 2025 – B International Shipping & Logistics, an affiliate of top energy trader BGN, has partnered with Al Seer Marine, a subsidiary of Abu Dhabi’s International Holding Company (IHC), to launch a powerful new joint venture—ASBI Shipping FZCO. […]
BGN Awarded Export-Backed Finance Deal of the Year at TXF Amsterdam 2025
The trust our financial partners place in BGN’s growth story was reaffirmed this week in Amsterdam when, together with the Abu Dhabi Exports Office (ADEX) and our syndicate of leading partner banks, we won the award for Export-Backed Finance Deal of the Year at TXF Amsterdam 2025: Global Natural Resources and Commodities Finance. The award […]
BGN CEO Rüya Bayegan Named Energy Woman of the Year at Middle East Awards
In a prestigious ceremony highlighting excellence in the Middle East energy sector, BGN Group CEO Rüya Bayegan was honoured with the Energy Woman of the Year Award, cementing her position among the industry’s most influential leaders. The recognition came during the Oil & Gas Middle East Awards ceremony in Dubai, where industry pioneers gathered to […]
Abu Dhabi Exports Office Grows Nine-Lender Finance Facility for Energy Trader BGN to More than $230m
Abu Dhabi, 19 February 2025 – Abu Dhabi Exports Office (ADEX) and First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB), leading a syndicate of nine UAE lenders, have successfully more than doubled a finance facility for global energy trader BGN to $232.5 million. Originally set at $100 million with a $120 million target, the oversubscribed facility marks a […]
BGN Sponsored The London Energy Club’s 15th Anniversary
BGN, a global leader in energy and commodities trading, supported the 15th Anniversary of The London Energy Club, held on 16 January 2025 in London. The special event themed “The Mediterranean Energy-Geopolitics-Investment Nexus”, focused on the intricate challenges and opportunities in the Mediterranean region’s energy, geopoliticaland investment landscape. The milestone event, moderated by Mehmet Öğütçü, […]
Rüya Bayegan Receives Lifetime Achievement Award for Women’s Leadership in Energy
Rüya Bayegan, Group CEO of BGN, was recognized with the New Silk Road Lifetime Achievement Award for the Advancement of Women’s Leadership in the International Energy Markets. The award was presented by ADNOC Trading CEO President Ahmad Bin Thalith, at the Gulf Intelligence Energy Markets Forum, in Fujairah, UAE, on 1 October 2024. The international […]
BGN’s Swiss Head Talks Diversity at Geneva Women in Leadership Event
Global business leaders must be aware that the world needs to allocate more explicit attentionand dedicated resources, for gender equality. After all, research has shown that companies are typically more profitable under female leadership. Men are nonetheless still dominating decision-making and not enough women are invited to sit on companies’ boards of directors, according to […]
BGN Sees ECAs as Matchmakers in Developing Export Finance Ecosystems
During the past two years, government-backed finance bodies have increasingly turned to international commodity traders to help support their export strategies and efforts to secure supply of vital imports. BGN believes that export credit agencies, or ECAs, will continue to play an important role in bringing together traders and banks to facilitate trade in energy […]