Tag: HSFO
HSFO Demand: Are Global Refiners Ready To Meet Sulfur Mandate?
Sri Paravaikkarasu, director for Asia oil at Facts Global Energy, says refiners worldwide need to be incentivized further to produce enough very low sulfur...
Shipping Companies Negotiating on New CPA Clauses
The upcoming IMO 2020 sulfur emission regulation is prompting both owners and charterers to negotiate and incorporate new clauses in their charter party agreements,...
Hyundai Box Ships To Get Scrubbers With New Compact Configuration
Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM) ordered TWELVE 23,000-TEU containerships which will be fitted with scrubbers, reports Ship&Bunker.
Continued Scrubber trend
From early sightings of Hyundai Merchant Marine's...
Singapore LSFO Leaps To 15% of Total Bunker Sales
LSFO volumes have jumped to make up 15% of the overall total for October.
HSFO sales just a little over six weeks away,...
Preparing Fuel Tanks for VLSFO
Viswa Lab, in its recent technical update answers the question as how to prepare the tanks which contained high sulfur fuel so that they...
Lower Scrubber Uptake May Keep Coking Margins High
The shipping industry appears much less likely to install scrubbers to comply with new marine fuel rules than analysts once anticipated, could keep coking...
HSFO Demand Cannot be Dead and Gone from Shipping Industry
With the upcoming 2020 sulphur cap, the shipping industry is on the run for compliant low-sulphur fuels. Yet, it is seen that the demand...
Possible Fuel Oil Contamination at the Fujairah Port
As per the enclosed advice by Lloyd's Register a number of fuel oil samples from deliveries in Fujairah have been found to have an...
US Refiners Increase HSFO Throughput As IMO 2020 Approaches
US refiners are looking to blendstocks and feedstocks as they create and market their own low-sulfur marine fuel ahead of 2020.
The production...
2020 HSFO-LSFO Differential Pricing Likely To Be $134/MT
We have been asserting that the differential cost between HSFO and VLSFO will never be as low as $67/MT as projected by some sources...