Bulk fuel and energy for sites
Black Diamond Energy connects the sites that run on fuel and energy (fuel hubs, forecourts, farms, mines, construction yards and fleet depots) with vetted service providers of diesel, petrol, jet fuel, paraffin and LPG gas. Order in bulk, pay into TradeSafe escrow, and the money is released only when the product is offloaded and signed for at your site.
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Access is granted after document review. Service Provider prices and available volumes are visible to approved members only.
Two sides, one deal
For sites
Who it is for
Rural, semi-rural and industrial sites where fuel keeps the work running — and where a late or short delivery stops it.
Modular fuel hubs and forecourts restocking their bulk tanks and their LPG.
Farms and co-ops fuelling tractors, harvesters and irrigation through the season.
Pits and quarries running haul trucks and plant on site, far from a forecourt.
Contractors keeping earthmoving plant and generators running on remote sites.
Trucking depots, plant hire and security fleets fuelling their own vehicles in bulk.
Four steps
Sites and service providers register on one mobile number and upload company registration and the signatory’s ID, plus a wholesale license for service providers. An administrator approves each one by hand.
A site sizes an order against a service provider’s listed volume, or posts a request and compares sealed quotes. Both sides accept the same standard sale agreement on the platform.
The site pays TradeSafe directly. The service provider is told only once TradeSafe confirms it holds the money, so fuel never leaves the depot against a promise.
Each load is offloaded and signed for at the site. When every load is in and the site confirms, TradeSafe pays the service provider.
Black Diamond Energy has no payment gateway, no client account and no access to anybody’s funds. The site’s money sits with TradeSafe until the fuel is in the tank; the service provider knows it is there before a truck leaves the depot.
Once both parties sign the agreement, the site pays the full amount to TradeSafe. It never enters a Black Diamond Energy account, because Black Diamond Energy does not have one.
TradeSafe confirms it holds the funds. Only then does the platform let the service provider dispatch, so product moves against money already in escrow rather than against a promise.
Each load is marked collected, in transit and delivered on its own driver link, with the receiver’s full name typed at offload. That record is the evidence behind the release.
When the delivery is signed off, the site confirms receipt and TradeSafe releases the money to the service provider. TradeSafe runs two payment runs every business day, at 10h00 and 15h00. A deal closes only when every load is released and the volumes add up exactly.
Payments on our platform are processed securely through TradeSafe, a South African digital escrow and payments provider. TradeSafe operates as a Third-Party Payment Provider within the South African payments ecosystem, with escrow funds held separately from TradeSafe’s operating funds in a dedicated escrow account at Standard Bank. TradeSafe is PCI DSS compliant and maintains professional indemnity and cyber insurance. In addition, EY performs agreed-upon procedures in terms of international standards on related services. These measures provide an additional layer of security and oversight, while TradeSafe’s escrow structure ensures that funds can be held securely until the agreed transaction conditions have been fulfilled.
Delivery
The service provider splits an order into the loads their fleet can actually run. Each load gets its own link to send the driver — it needs no login and it carries no prices at all.
The driver marks the trip started when they pull out of the depot. At the site, the person receiving the fuel types their full name to sign the load off. That sign-off is stamped against the load, visible to both sides and to an administrator, and it is the evidence the release is paid against.
Nothing about that record can be edited afterwards. A delivery either happened, with a name against it, or it did not.
Bulk, between registered businesses. Available volumes and service provider prices are visible to approved members only.
Official DMPR wholesale grid · effective 4 November 2026
Published departmental wholesale reference — not a pump price, and not a price on offer.
Public reference
Size a load against the official wholesale grid. Choose a published product and zone, then enter a volume. The calculation stays in integer cents and never substitutes a service provider’s actual offer.
The gold-outlined fields are editable — please fill them in.
Zone 1A covers Cape Town, Durban, Port Elizabeth, Amanzimtoti, Bellville, Blackheath, Brakenfell, Chatsworth, Durbanville, East London +22 more.
Official grid · Diesel 50ppm · Zone 1A
R30.73/ℓ
This is an official DMPR grid reference, not an offer. Actual prices from approved service providers are available after registration.
Register to see service provider pricesTutorial
Registering a site or a supply business, listing or ordering fuel, signing the agreement, paying into TradeSafe escrow, delivery and getting paid — with the exact button to press at each step.
It plays right here, on this page.
Registration takes a few minutes. An administrator reads your documents properly before you trade.
Broker? See your deals, your fees and your SARS-ready invoices in one place.
For service providers
Towns and routes where the nearest reliable bulk supply is a long haul away.
TradeSafe makes two payments at 10h00 and 15h00 every business day. Where a release is authorised between 08h01 and 14h00, payment is made at 15h00 that day. Where it is authorised after 14h01, payment is made at 09h00 the following business day. Depending on the receiving bank, funds may take up to 24 hours to reflect.
The platform never holds a rand. Everything above is the bank’s money movement. Black Diamond Energy’s job is the record: who agreed what, on what terms and what was actually delivered against it.
