Mercuria Energy Group Ltd is a privately held Swiss international commodity trading company active in a wide spectrum of global energy markets including crude oil and refined petroleum products, natural gas (including LNG), power, coal, biodiesel, carbon emissions, base metals[8] and agricultural products.[9] In 2014, the company bought the commodities trading arm of J.P. Morgan in a reported US$800 million deal.[10] It is one of the world's five largest independent energy traders and asset operators and is based in Geneva, Switzerland, with 34 additional offices worldwide.