Trading & Supply
Downstream petroleum products sourced and supplied through qualified suppliers, with current commercial focus on AGO and EN590.
Explore divisionDownstream energy & commodity trading
We source and supply downstream petroleum products, connecting verified suppliers with qualified buyers across Nigeria and international markets. Current focus: AGO and EN590.
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What we do
Trading is only credible if someone answers for what happens after the contract is signed. We contract the storage, the movement and the generation too, and name who holds each one.
Downstream petroleum products sourced and supplied through qualified suppliers, with current commercial focus on AGO and EN590.
Explore divisionStorage, marine and road movement arranged through qualified third parties, coordinated by DABA rather than handed to the buyer.
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Explore divisionWhy DABA
We contract as principal rather than taking a percentage for an introduction, and the storage and haulage are booked under our name instead of passed through. Risk we will not take ourselves is not risk we will ask a client to take.
Most supply failures are logistics failures wearing a trading costume.
Operating principleReference levels
Indicative reference levels for illustration only. Not live market data and not an offer to trade. Contact the desk for a firm price.
Market context
Nigeria’s refined product demand, and the infrastructure being built to meet it.
Nigeria's average daily PMS consumption. NMDPRA reporting, to mid-2026.
National AGO demand. This is the product at the centre of our supply focus. NMDPRA, 2026.
Dangote refinery nameplate, running near full utilisation and reshaping import patterns.
Nigeria's projected 2026 population. UN World Population Prospects.
Capabilities
Product supply, storage and movement, power and construction. Each one is set out with what the work involves, who does it, and where the risk sits.
Automotive gas oil and EN590 sourced against confirmed supplier allocation and matched to a buyer's specification, volume and delivery window.
Undertaken where DABA holds an authorised seller mandate and verified supply sits behind it. Both conditions, not either.
Capacity arranged with qualified third-party terminals where a transaction requires it, with the terminal named before you commit.
Common questions
The questions we are asked most often, answered without the marketing layer.
We source against the requirement. DABA works with verified suppliers and qualified buyers, structuring each transaction around confirmed availability rather than holding a position and looking for a home for it. That is a deliberate choice, and it is why we will decline a requirement we cannot actually source rather than accept it and hope.
No, and we would rather say so. Storage capacity is arranged through qualified third-party terminals where the transaction requires it, marine transport through vessel owners and charterers, and road movement through vetted haulage providers. That is entirely normal for a trading business. What matters is that each link is contracted and named rather than assumed.
Parcel sizes are subject to verified supplier allocation, buyer requirements and transaction structure. Once a specific supply channel is confirmed, we quote the quantity actually available against it. That is a more useful answer than a headline capacity nobody has tested.
Agreed transaction by transaction. Structures may include documentary letters of credit, bank-supported payment mechanisms, escrow or other mutually agreed arrangements, subject to banking, contractual and compliance requirements. The mechanism is settled before anything is fixed rather than negotiated afterwards.
Independent inspection is carried out by internationally recognised inspection companies agreed between the parties, where the transaction requires it. Quantity and quality established by an independent surveyor govern. A buyer should never have to take a seller's word for what arrived.
By metering the actual load first. We install logging for several weeks before designing anything, because sizing from a nameplate rating rather than a measured profile is the most common way these projects fail.
Systems we install can be remotely monitored and reported monthly against the model that won the work, including the months where performance falls short of it.
Next step
Send the requirement: volume, specification, site or scope. You will get a considered answer from someone who can act on it.