Crude trader Julien Roper leaves Mercuria, sources say

LONDON (Reuters) – Crude oil trader Julien Roper left Switzerland-based commodities trader Mercuria on Thursday, five trading sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters.

Roper was part of the Mediterranean crude trading desk, trading cargoes like the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) Blend crude grade produced by Kazakhstan.

    It was not immediately clear why he left the company, but a person familiar with the matter said it was a mutual decision that was reached in a “very amicable” manner. 

Roper joined Mercuria in October 2023, according to his LinkedIn profile, after spending more than nine years as a fuel oil and then crude oil trader with energy major Shell.

(Reporting by Ahmad Ghaddar, Robert Harvey, Ron Bousso and Anna Hirtenstein; Editing by Jan Harvey)

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