The infrastructure of physical oil trade.

I'm not an oil trader. The people I built this for are everywhere physical oil trades: refinery operators in Lahore, Mumbai, and Bilbao; thirty-year veterans of the Houston and Geneva trading floors; brokers working Rotterdam, Singapore, Karachi, and Lagos. I spent months listening to them describe the same thing. Deals that fell apart, not because the price was wrong. Because the counterparty turned out to be a broker of a broker. Because the documents never matched. Because no one could confirm who was actually shipping what. The story was identical in every timezone.

OilFlow is what I built after hearing that story enough times. The trust, settlement, and data infrastructure for physical oil and gas trade across 79 non-sanctioned regulatory jurisdictions. The trust layer is live today: every member passes the same 7-step background check before they see a single listing — sanctions screening against OFAC, UN, EU, and UK; company registration; regulator licensing; trade references. Every deal has a structured workflow. Paperwork is auto-drafted from accepted terms and counsel-reviewed before anyone signs. The settlement layer — white-label escrow via partner banks — is what we're building next.

Counterparty density is deepest today across Pakistan, the Gulf, East Africa, and SE Asia — that's where I started, that's where the warmest relationships live, and that's where matching closes fastest right now. We're live in every corridor we're cleared in, and growing toward parity everywhere else.

We don't hold funds. We don't issue letters of credit. We don't arbitrate disputes. We do the unglamorous parts — verification, matching, document orchestration, sanctions screening — so operators can focus on the trade itself.

The network is early and the founding member group is intentionally small. If what I described sounds like something you've lived through, apply. If it doesn't, reply and tell me where I'm wrong. I read every message.