Corporate Banking Solutions for Oil and Gas Sector

Oil & Gas

You can draw on the valuable knowledge and experience we’ve gained from working with many of the leading Oil and Gas businesses.

Barclays has a long history in the UK Oil and Gas sector, with teams based in Aberdeen, London and New York.

    70 Years combined experience in the Oil and Gas sector.¹

Our dedicated team of Relationship Directors, with a combined 70 years’ experience in the Oil and Gas sector, support everything from upstream production and service sector businesses through to refinery and downstream companies.1

They specialise in providing a flexible Oil and Gas banking service to domestic and multi-national corporations in order to meet all your treasury and financing requirements.


As one of our Oil and Gas clients, we can also offer you:

  • valuable contacts through our relationships with leading trade associations and key industry professionals in the legal, regulatory, accountancy and corporate Oil and Gas world
  • regular networking opportunities, industry events and sponsorships, such as the Oil and Technology Conference in Houston and Offshore Europe in Aberdeen
  • in-depth analysis of legal trends from our in-house research team
  • industry-specific credit team that understand Oil and Gas finance


What we can offer

We recognise the unique challenges and opportunities you face in your sector, and we understand the finance you need to grow within it.

You can benefit from a service that can meet both your day-to-day banking needs and longer-term financial requirements. For example, our commodity, interest and currency hedging risk management solutions can help mitigate your exposure to oil and gas price volatility while maximising your returns.

Cash Management

Optimise your working capital with products that enable you to efficiently manage funds, payments and collections.

Corporate Lending

Benefit from a wide range of finance products to grow your business, recapitalise, refinance and consolidate debt.

Foreign Exchange

Reduce the risk of the exchange rate volatility and benefit from our sector professionals who can offer you products that meet your FX requirements.

Trade Finance

Improve your cashflow and your trading potential both in the UK and overseas.


Contact our Oil and Gas team

Walter Cumming – Head of Oil and Gas

Walter Cumming – Head of Oil and Gas

Walter has over 30 years’ banking experience, most of which has been spent in a variety of roles in corporate banking in the UK and US.

He has been involved in Oil and Gas finance for 20 years, both during his time in New York and in various roles in the UK, including credit, leveraged finance and corporate banking. Walter is a Chartered Banker who holds an MBA from Edinburgh University.

To find out what our Oil and Gas team can do for your business, email Walter or call our dedicated team on 0800 015 4242*

 

1Source: Barclays, August 2012

How can we help?

If you are new to Corporate Banking at Barclays, call us on: 0800 015 4242*

Existing client?