Former School Captain Jason Breslaw has been making headlines in his career as a distillates trader for BP.
Jason (OE 1994-2001), who was School Captain in 2000, was interviewed and photographed for a Daily Mail recruitment feature looking at the breadth of careers available in the oil and gas industries.
Having read Natural Sciences at Cambridge after leaving School, specialising in Chemistry, Jason has spent the last nine years working on BP’s Oil Trading Floor in London. In an email to the School’s alumni office, he said it is a career choice that he would highly recommend to other Elizabethans.
His work involves buying and selling products such as gas oil, diesel, heating oil and jet fuel from refineries, as cargo or in storage tanks.
He told Daily Mail reporter Linda Whitney: ““Many people do not realise that oil and gas careers can include commodities trading. I found out…at a careers fair and joined the BP graduate scheme. As a Natural Sciences graduate, it meant trading in a commodity I could understand.
“Information comes in to me constantly to help me make decisions about future prices, and I buy and sell accordingly: one news story can impact on demand.
“It’s fast-paced, intellectually stimulating and based on reality – I’ve seen ships that carry the fuels I deal in, and what I do helps provide people with heat, light and mobility.”