Energy investment holding · UAE

Energy stewardship across upstream, downstream and trading

Aquilon acquires producing energy assets in emerging markets, restores them to their potential and turns barrels into secured cash flows.

Our strategy
$3bn+
Target platform size
Global South
Oil and gas markets
Cash-flow
Yielding, de-risked assets
Dubai
Headquarters
Company

An investor that operates

A UAE-based energy investment holding specialising in emerging markets and special situations.

01

Decades-long track record

Self-generated opportunities, built on long-term relationships: large transactions and business transformations across the energy sector.

02

Investment and industrial leadership

Large capex projects, complex structuring and financing. Every investment decision is supported by subsurface and operational expertise.

03

Value created through organic growth

Businesses developed with strong local and international management teams and a growth pipeline for sustainable performance.

About the company
How we create value

From entry to secured cash flow

01

Source

Proprietary access through an established network of operators, strategic partners and governments.

02

Acquire

Special situations: undercapitalised, distressed or non-core assets entered at discounted valuations.

03

Revive

Restarts, drilling and enhanced-recovery programs backed by the group's own technical teams.

04

Monetise

Offtake, prepayment and structured finance that convert restored production into secured cash flows.

Strategy

Buy, revive and monetise

From anchor asset to an integrated Global South energy group.

Direction 01

Upstream

Enter discounted assets, restore production, repeat the model: restarts, enhanced recovery and drilling programs.

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Direction 02

Downstream and technology

Build processing and services where the region lacks them: refining, bitumen and petrochemicals for regional deficits.

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Direction 03

Trading and capital

Turn barrels and assets into secured cash flows: offtake, prepayment and structured finance through the cycle.

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Operating platform

We invest where barrels already flow

Producing fields, refineries and trading flows: assets that yield today and grow tomorrow.

Group

Four verticals, one platform

$5bn+
Trading
accumulated revenue
$500m+
Upstream
investments
$100m+
LNG
investments
$300m+
Infrastructure
asset value
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Geography

Global footprint

Producing assets, group operations and delivered projects across three continents.

Dubai · UAE Headquarters · O&G, gas and LNG trading Antwerp · Belgium Oil storage terminal Maputo · Mozambique Bulk terminal · gas and energy expansion Western Kazakhstan Producing assets · Central Asia Caspian Crude transshipment hub Türkiye Refinery megaproject · delivered Azerbaijan Petrochemical complex · delivered South Sudan Platform entry in progress
Producing assets and group operations
Delivered projects · the team's track record
Platform entry in progress
Trading flows · crude, products, gas and LNG

Assets shown at country level. A non-exhaustive view of group operations and the team's delivered projects.

Track record

Projects the team has delivered

Downstream · Turkey

STAR Refinery

A 10 mtpa plant financed through the largest ECA-covered project financing in Turkey: $3.29bn across 7 export credit agencies and 15 banks.

Petrochemicals · Azerbaijan

SOCAR Polymer

The country's largest petrochemical complex: a $1bn investment delivering 184 kta of polypropylene and 120 kta of HDPE.

Upstream · Central Asia

Producing assets in Kazakhstan

Two onshore producing assets in western Kazakhstan with 6.8 million tonnes of recoverable reserves and about 910 kta of combined output in 2025.

Full track record
We enter where others hesitate: buy discounted assets, restore production and turn barrels into secured cash flow. That discipline is what compounds value across the Global South.
Farid Jafarov
Farid Jafarov
Managing Partner
Team

Leadership

People who have run fields, refineries and trading books.

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Contact

Discuss a partnership

For asset owners, governments and co-investors across the Global South.

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