Sempra Energy Trading Corp. operates as an energy trading company in North America. The company markets and trades physical and financial energy products, such as crude oil and refined products, natural gas and natural gas liquids, power, coal, emissions, and ethanol. Its services include risk management; and asset management, including generation management, power contracts and transmission, and pipeline utilization and creative structures. The company serves natural gas producers, pipelines, gas and electric utilities, independent power producers and virtual utilities, industrials, municipalities, IOUs, and storage operators in North America, Europe, Asia, and South America. Sempra Energy Trading Corp. was formerly known as AIG Trading Corp. The company is based in Stamford, Connecticut with additional offices in Europe, Asia, and the Americas. As of August 1997, Sempra Energy Trading Corp. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sempra Energy.