Lord Energy

Established in 2008 by entrepreneur Hazim Nada, Lord Energy is a well-known seaborne commodities merchant specializing in oil and natural gas. Over the course of the last decade, Lord Energy has burgeoned from a small firm operating in the Mediterranean to a multibillion-dollar venture with global aspirations, establishing in the process a reputation for being a quality trader that prioritizes reliability, continuity, and performance in business. Importantly, the company is entirely independent: it does not rely on outside investors or venture capitalists to find success. In the years to come, Lord Energy intends to continue this independent reach for achievement by both expanding its reach in the seaborne crude oil and natural gas trade, and contributing to high-energy physics research on a potential solution for post-fossil fuel energy systems.

Though its current success might suggest otherwise, Lord Energy has humble roots. Founder Hazim Nada first brought his ideas for the company into reality during the final year of his PhD studies at Imperial College London. The choice to center Lord Energy on the oil trade was carefully considered, as Nada’s work in the financial sector had helped him build connections with influential energy companies and industrial ventures. For the first two years after Lord Energy’s founding, Hazim Nada focused the company on providing market analysis and business development consultations to the client pool he had developed as a trader.

Shortly following the Great Financial Crisis, Hazim Nada saw an opportunity in the low-cost sector of dry bulk commodities such as bagged cement and grain and began to use cargo as the principle. The company launched its efforts with sub-handy shipments and quickly grew to encompass the largest cement import market in the Mediterranean over the course of the next few years. In 2016, Lord Energy single-handedly carried a fifth of all bagged cement traveling across the Mediterranean, thereby providing needed European raw materials to Chinese and Korean construction conglomerates. By creating a bedrock of business based in dry bulk commodities, Lord Energy was able to follow its original interest in lucrative energy-based sectors such as oil and gasoline. Today, the company is well-established as a leading merchant of crude oil and liquified natural gas in the region.