Parkland Corporation has named Rick Marriner as its new vice president of trading, a company spokesperson confirmed to C-Store Dive.
Marriner brings more than 30 years of supply chain experience within the oil, gas and transportation industries. He will focus on integrating and optimizing Parkland’s supply and trading operations across the company’s entire 26-country footprint, the spokesperson said. Marriner took on the new role on July 15.
The former Shell supply chain veteran will oversee Parkland’s commodity trading operations and will work to scale the company’s fundamentals and analytics capabilities, the spokesperson said. That includes managing the full lifecycle of trades and commodity exposure, as well as working with all parts of the business “to capture the full value of our assets and maximize our end-to-end margin in partnership with our refining, retail and commercial organizations,” the spokesperson noted.
Marriner’s role is brand new at Parkland. He is based in Houston and reports to Tyler Rimbey, Parkland’s senior vice president of supply and trading.
“Rick will be invaluable as we further align the Canada, US, and SOL Supply and Trading teams together,” Parkland’s spokesperson said in a statement to C-Store Dive.
Prior to joining Parkland, Marriner spent two years with Mumbai, India-based oil and gas company Reliance Industries Limited, where he was CEO of the company’s U.S. operations, according to his LinkedIn bio. Before that, he spent six years with Houston-based oil company Motiva Enterprises, where he was a trading team manager before becoming VP and director of trading, transportation fuels, renewables and petrochemicals.
The bulk of Marriner’s oil and gas experience came from the 16 years he spent at Shell. He joined the oil and gas giant in 1999 as an oil tanker and barge charterer, and worked his way up at the company, eventually becoming a shareholder representative and joint venture portfolio manager, according to his LinkedIn bio.
Other positions Marriner held at Shell included energy trading and risk management project manager and trading subject matter expert, as well as an oil trader for Shell’s refinery, intermediates and residual fuels teams in the Americas and in Europe.
Calgary, Alberta-based Parkland is the largest independent fuel retailer and second-largest c-store operator in Canada. In the U.S., Parkland operates 650 retail sites across Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah and Florida.
