For brokers · 2 segments
Find a counterparty. Skip the handshake.
Drumchord for oil and jet-fuel brokers — a vetted counterparty book side-by-side with a disclosed commission band, layered over standardized specs. Two segments below, the same desk underneath.
Segments
2 desks · Jet · Oil
Public · No login · Vetting pre-bid
Two segments. One disclosed-commission model.
Toggle between Jet fuel brokers and Oil brokers. Each tab surfaces the role-specific vocabulary — cargo classes, tender windows, common jurisdictions, and credit-line norms — so a broker lands on the variant that matches the desk they actually work.
Every variant on this page closes on the same three primitives underneath: KYC vetting, transparent commissions, and standardized specs. The bands below are the bands; the model doesn't shift between desks.
Spot into-plane, CIF Med, and term jet-fuel positions. Drumchord is built around this desk — aviation grade specs, ARA and US Gulf as anchor ports, and disclosed USD/MT commission that stamps into the thread header on accept.
- Typical cargo
1,000–30,000 MT
Into-plane positions common around 3–12k MT; CIF Med 10–25k MT. Drumchord handles both inside the same spec sheet — product, grade, lay/can, hook → destination.
- Tender window
3–7 days
Spot tender windows run three to seven days from listing to close. Term positions and contract mediation stretch to 7–14 with a sealed-bid cadence.
- Common jurisdictions
ARA · USGC · USWC · Med · WAF · Asia
ARA (Amsterdam–Rotterdam–Antwerp), US Gulf, US West Coast, Mediterranean (Italy, Spain, Greek), West Africa, and Singapore / Asia hubs are the daily routes on the desk.
- Credit-line norms
$1M–$25M cleared
Cleared limits published on profile before price enters the conversation. Tier-1 airlines and tier-2 resellers both qualify; credit decision happens pre-bid, not at settlement.
- 01
KYC vetting
Identity, beneficial ownership, AML clearances. A posted credit line sits on the profile before price enters the conversation — not at the moment of a deal.
- 02
Transparent commissions
Both sides see the same USD/MT band on the thread header. No rate shopping. No "contact for quote". No prepayment, no hold.
- 03
Standardized specs
One product taxonomy. Lay/can, hook → destination, incoterms in fields, not freeform. Every listing renders the same way to every viewer.
Handshakes are a signal, not a discovery channel.
Brokers already know each other. Drumchord exists for the part that's slow — discovering a NEW counterparty on the far side of a tender window, qualifying them for credit, getting the commission band into both hands before the bids open.
Whether you book jet into-plane or crude on the index, the desk composes the same primitives: a standardized spec sheet, a posted commission band, a KYC-cleared counterparty stack, an append-only audit trail.
Jet-fuel lead desk
Drumchord's lead product. Aviation-grade specs (Jet A-1 / Jet A) with freeze-point and sulfur gates enforced in the spec sheet, not negotiated after.
Crude on the index
Brent / WTI / Dubai benchmark-grade listings with API and sulfur defaults. Weekly index positions close on Wednesdays because the underlying benchmark moves there.
Pre-bid credit decision
A cleared limit sits on the counterparty profile before a single bid opens. $1M–$100M range, refreshed quarterly, posted in spec.
No rate-shopping
The USD/MT band is the band. Both sides see the same number on the thread header. Compensation only moves on a closed deal.
Two paths to a matchmaker. Same desk underneath.
Read the disclosed commission bands first (the fees card), or walk the explainer end-to-end and come back. Both paths land on the same desk — Drumchord for brokers, refiners, distributors, and the long tail of cleared counterparties on either side.
See the commission bands.
Jet fuel $5–$15 / MT, tender fees per parcel class, contract mediation per lift — every band on the desk is published before a match closes.
- Spot cargo
- Tender
- Contract mediation
Walk the explainer.
Five short sections: who the desk is for, how vetting works, the four deal types, the disclosed-commission model, and the settlement tracker that produces the audit trail.
- KYC vetting
- Deal types
- Settlement tracker
Bands undisclosed in advance are not on the desk · Both sides see the same rate