Important Notice:
Beware of Impersonation Attempts - GASTCO INC.
27 NOVEMBER 2025: We have recently been made aware of individuals fraudulently impersonating GASTCO INC., including a recent attempt to engage with a major refinery under our name. Please be advised that GASTCO INC. communicates exclusively through our official channels.
All legitimate correspondence from our company will come from an @gastco.co email address or through verified GASTCO representatives.
If you receive any communication claiming to be from GASTCO INC. that does not originate from these official channels, please treat it as suspicious and report it to us immediately at compliance@gastco.co.
Your security and trust are our priority.
Gastco Inc. is a private energy and commodities firm focused on strategic trade execution, supply chain optimization, and capital deployment across global markets.
Operating at the intersection of physical flows and financial structures, we specialize in the movement of energy products, structured transactions, and tailored solutions for sovereign, institutional, and industrial clients. With a presence in key hubs across the US, Asia, Africa and Europe, we operate with discretion, speed, and precision in volatile environments.
Unparalleled Excellence in Commodities.
Our Expertise.
Energy
We specialize in sourcing, trading, and optimizing flows of crude oil and refined products, with crude representing 90% of our business. Through deep market intelligence, global relationships, and strategic positioning across key hubs, we capture value in volatile environments and maintain uninterrupted supply chains. Our capabilities span procurement, storage, transportation, and structured trading, ensuring competitive pricing, seamless logistics, and consistent, execution for partners operating across global commercial energy markets.
Governments
We provide mission-critical supply, logistics, and energy support to U.S. federal agencies, defense organizations, and allied partners. Our government contracting division delivers rapid, compliant, and cost-effective solutions across fuel supply, materials, transportation, and specialized operational needs. With a focus on reliability, transparency, and strategic readiness, we help DoD, DOE, DHS, and NATO partners enhance operational continuity in both steady-state and contingency environments.
Metals / Agriculture
We source, trade, and invest across essential energy, industrial minerals, and agricultural commodities, including lithium, copper, cobalt, rare earth elements, and premium grains such as wheat, oats, soy, canola, barley, and cotton. Leveraging upstream offtake agreements, midstream logistics, and global market access, we secure reliable supply chains, competitive pricing, and strategic positioning in high-growth markets while optimizing trade flows for our partners.
No Stone Unturned.
GASTCO is led by Tim Knight, a seasoned global macro and special situations investment manager with over a decade of experience in commodity trading, sovereign debt, and global markets at firms like J.P. Morgan and Goldman Sachs. His background spans crude oil and refined products, physical logistics, derivatives, metals, and emerging market sovereign credit, providing the firm with a leadership foundation grounded in institutional discipline and real-world trading judgment.
Our executive team combines decades of financial and industrial expertise with a focused understanding of macroeconomic dynamics, commodity market cycles, energy security considerations, and capital deployment. This multidisciplinary strength allows us to operate effectively at every link of the commodity value chain, whether acquiring distressed or strategic assets, optimizing production and midstream flows, or executing complex physical and derivatives strategies within global crude, products, and metals markets.
Having navigated multiple market cycles and global financial dislocations, our leadership has worked closely with Boards, National Oil Companies, sovereign stakeholders, operating teams, restructuring advisors, legal counsel, and capital providers. We bring the precision of institutional finance together with the operational grit of frontline commodity merchants and apply this combined strength to every barrel and every cargo we source, produce, refine, or trade.