History

Timeline

Late 1980's & 1990's

  • Louis Dreyfus Group begins marketing energy products, including natural gas, heating Oil, and crude oil
  • Louis Dreyfus Group enters oil & gas exploration and production business, later becomes Louis Dreyfus Natural Gas
  • Louis Dreyfus Group purchases Unocal's petroleum products terminals
  • Louis Dreyfus Natural Gas begins trading on the New York Stock Exchange
  • Louis Dreyfus Group enters joint venture with Duke Power to trade and market electricity
  • Louis Dreyfus Group acquires refinery in northwestern Germany
  • Louis Dreyfus Group enters into joint venture with Electricité de France to market wholesale electricity & fuels in Europe
  • Louis Dreyfus Group sells interest in joint venture with Duke Power
  • Louis Dreyfus Energy Services is formed to market petrochemicals & natural gas liquids

2000's

  • Louis Dreyfus Group sells its interest in EDF Trading to EDF.
  • Louis Dreyfus Group sells its refinery in Germany to ConocoPhilips
  • Louis Dreyfus Energy Services purchases West Texas pipeline & NGL storage facilities in Mississippi
  • Louis Dreyfus Energy Services begins marketing natural gas & refined products
  • Louis Dreyfus Energy Services acquires Olefins fractionation and processing facilities in Louisiana
  • Joint venture with affiliates of Highbridge Capital Management, which changes name to Louis Dreyfus Highbridge Energy (LDH Energy)
  • LDH Energy becomes 100% owner and operator of Mont Belvieu storage facility
  • LDH Energy acquires Cyrus Coal Terminal in West Virginia
  • LDH Energy completes connection of Mont Belvieu storage facility to Colonial refined products pipeline