Built on Relationships. Driven by Integrity. Defined by Follow-Through.
Who We Are
Pacific Rim Petroleum Company LLC operates across two complementary areas of the petroleum marketplace.
As a principal trader, Pacific Rim may purchase crude oil and refined petroleum products for its own account, take title to product, and resell directly to qualified end buyers, refineries, and strategic commercial partners.
Pacific Rim also serves as a commercial facilitator and transaction coordinator. In this role, we work alongside qualified counterparties to help them understand transaction requirements, prepare documentation, coordinate communication, and navigate established supply channels involving independent suppliers, titleholders, refineries, and commercial platforms.
Our role is determined by the structure of each individual transaction, allowing us to participate where appropriate as a principal, facilitator, or commercial coordinator.
Our Approach
Successful petroleum transactions are built on more than product availability. They require trusted relationships, clear communication, commercial capability, and disciplined execution. At Pacific Rim, we believe lasting business is built by helping counterparties understand the process, solve problems collaboratively, and follow through on commitments.
Pacific Rim was built around three core principles:
Relationships
We believe strong commercial relationships are built through accessibility, responsiveness, and mutual respect. Taking the time to understand each counterparty's objectives helps establish trust that extends well beyond a single transaction.
Integrity
Integrity means communicating honestly about requirements, responsibilities, timelines, and potential challenges. Clear expectations and transparency help counterparties make informed commercial decisions with confidence.
Follow-Through
We remain engaged throughout the commercial process—helping coordinate communication, clarify procedures, organize documentation, and keep the appropriate parties aligned from initial discussions through transaction execution.
These principles guide how we evaluate opportunities, work with counterparties, and manage commercial relationships.
What We Do
Pacific Rim combines principal trading activity, established commercial relationships, and hands-on transaction support to pursue petroleum opportunities across international markets.
Our capabilities include:
International petroleum and refined fuel trading
Buyer, seller, and counterparty engagement
Commercial opportunity evaluation and qualification
Product, specification, volume, and delivery alignment
Transaction documentation and communication coordination
Due diligence and transaction support
Logistics and delivery coordination
Long-term commercial relationship development
When Pacific Rim acts as a facilitator or commercial coordinator, we help connect the parties, support communication, and coordinate the commercial process while each counterparty remains responsible for its respective role and contractual obligations.
Corporate Structure
Pacific Rim Petroleum Company LLC is a privately held Delaware Limited Liability Company and is registered to conduct business in the State of Texas.
The Company is equally owned by its two Managing Members, Jeffrey L. Davis and Charles House, who remain actively involved in Pacific Rim's executive management, commercial activities, and strategic direction.
This hands-on leadership structure keeps decision-making close to the Company's commercial relationships and allows Pacific Rim's founders to remain directly engaged as opportunities and partnerships develop.
Leadership
Jeffrey L. Davis
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Jeffrey L. Davis brings more than four decades of experience spanning petroleum, manufacturing, international business development, management consulting, and commodity trading.
His career began in the oil and gas industry with Phillips Petroleum and Halliburton, where he developed experience in engineering and field operations before expanding into international trade, corporate consulting, and commercial development. His background also includes expertise in international banking procedures, commercial documentation, and regulatory compliance across cross-border transactions.
As Chief Executive Officer, Jeff leads Pacific Rim's corporate strategy, commercial development, fuel trading activities, and international business relationships, remaining directly involved in the evaluation and development of key commercial opportunities.
Charles House
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer
Charles House brings more than forty years of executive leadership experience across petroleum, infrastructure development, commercial real estate, international investment, and strategic business development.
His experience includes commercial and infrastructure projects across the United States, Southeast Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, with a long-standing focus on strategic relationships and international business development. Over the course of his career, Charles has built an extensive network of relationships throughout the international energy industry.
As Chief Operating Officer, Charles works closely with Pacific Rim's leadership and commercial team, providing executive oversight of operations, strategic relationships, international development, and corporate growth initiatives.
Team Members
CJ Stone serves as Director of Commercial Sales for Pacific Rim Petroleum Company, leading commercial buyer development, counterparty engagement, and transaction coordination across the Company’s petroleum trading and facilitated transactions.
His work focuses on qualifying commercial opportunities, aligning buyer requirements with appropriate supply channels, and helping coordinate the commercial and procedural elements necessary to move transactions toward execution. His experience spans refined petroleum products and crude oil, including EN590, Jet A-1, fuel oils, LNG/LPG, and crude.
CJ works closely with Pacific Rim's executive leadership and commercial counterparties on buyer onboarding, transaction structuring, due diligence, documentation, and commercial coordination, with an emphasis on clear communication, realistic procedures, and consistent follow-through. Ten years prior to entering petroleum trading, he built a diverse background in commercial sales, financial services, and operations, following a decade of service in the United States Coast Guard.
Kevin Yates
Albert C. Flanders, Esq. serves as legal counsel to Pacific Rim Petroleum Company LLC, advising the Company in connection with its commercial activities, contractual relationships, transaction structuring, due diligence, and other legal matters arising in the ordinary course of its business.
Mr. Flanders is a founding partner of Pollack & Flanders, LLP and has practiced law since 1994. His practice includes representation of businesses, investors, lenders, entrepreneurs, and commercial counterparties in complex domestic and international transactions, including matters involving oil and gas, petroleum and refined fuel transactions, commodities, international trade, financing, joint ventures, and related commercial agreements.
Mr. Flanders also provides independent attorney escrow and paymaster services in connection with commercial transactions, including the receipt, safeguarding, and authorized disbursement of transaction proceeds, commissions, fees, and other funds through attorney-managed trust and escrow arrangements. His work includes transaction documentation, counterparty and compliance review, KYC/AML procedures, and coordination of domestic and international payment and settlement requirements.
In his role as legal counsel, Mr. Flanders works with Pacific Rim's executive, commercial, and compliance teams to support appropriately structured, documented, and professionally administered transactions.
Pacific Rim's commercial, compliance & legal leaders work alongside executive leadership to support counterparty relationships, transaction development, due diligence, and the day-to-day coordination required to move qualified opportunities forward.
ALBERT C. FLANDERS, ESQ.
Kevin Yates brings more than 35 years of diversified experience spanning fuel trading, international commodities, logistics, storage operations, and corporate compliance, with a career built across petroleum, manufacturing, and global supply chains.
Over the past five years, Kevin has built a strong reputation in fuel trading and brokering, specializing in EN590, Jet A-1, and D6. He has worked extensively with international suppliers, tank farms, and logistics partners, managing trade flows from allocation sourcing and documentation to storage coordination and buyer delivery.
As Compliance Director, Kevin draws on prior leadership experience in business development, finance, and operations, along with his background as a Compliance Officer overseeing regulatory adherence and documentation integrity, to support Pacific Rim's KYC/KYB, AML/CTF, sanctions screening, and counterparty due diligence practices.
Compliance Director
Legal Counsel
CJ Stone
Director of Commercial Sales
How We Operate
Petroleum transactions can involve unfamiliar procedures, extensive documentation, multiple counterparties, and transaction-specific requirements. Pacific Rim helps qualified counterparties navigate that process through clear communication, practical guidance, and consistent involvement as an opportunity develops.
Clear Expectations
We help counterparties understand transaction requirements, responsibilities, documentation, and next steps so expectations are aligned early.
Active Coordination
Our team stays engaged with the appropriate parties to coordinate communication, organize information, clarify procedures, and help address issues as they arise.
Practical Support
We remain engaged throughout the commercial process, helping counterparties understand procedures, documentation requirements, responsibilities, and next steps. Depending on the transaction, this may include direct calls, live video meetings, or in-person tabletop meetings when face-to-face coordination would help move the parties toward clear commercial alignment.
In facilitated transactions, Pacific Rim may present qualified opportunities to independent suppliers, sellers, titleholders, or commercial platforms. Those parties independently determine whether to accept, decline, or proceed with a proposed transaction under their applicable procedures.
Our objective is to protect the integrity of the transaction while making the process as clear, transparent, and manageable as possible for the parties involved.
Compliance
Pacific Rim is committed to responsible counterparty review, documentation integrity, confidentiality, regulatory awareness, and transaction-specific due diligence. These practices are designed to help identify concerns early, protect commercial relationships, and support informed decision-making as transactions develop.
Dedicated Compliance Leadership
Pacific Rim maintains dedicated compliance leadership through its Compliance Director, who works alongside executive and commercial teams to support counterparty review, due diligence, documentation standards, and applicable KYC/KYB, AML/CTF, and sanctions-screening practices.
Shared Responsibility
Effective due diligence is a shared responsibility. Pacific Rim encourages buyers, sellers, and other counterparties to conduct their own independent review, ask questions, verify information, and understand their respective obligations before proceeding with a transaction.
Good compliance should protect a transaction without standing in the way of clear communication and productive commercial relationships.
Pacific Rim works with qualified buyers, refineries, suppliers, titleholders, and strategic partners seeking professional, transparent, and well-supported petroleum transactions.
Whether you have an active commercial requirement or simply want to begin a conversation, our team welcomes the opportunity to learn more about what you're working on.