Cracked Fuel Oil
Cracked Fuel Oil is an end product obtained by blending resids from conversion, atmospheric or vacuum distillation processes with cutterstocks like Kerosene, Light Cycle Oil or Gasoil to adjust properties like viscosity or sulphur content.
Cracked Fuel Oils are widely used to power co-generation plants, industrial boilers and furnaces and marine motor engines and may be classified by the ISO 1287 standard according to their viscosity, density and metals content. European Community and Marpol regulations aim to reduce the sulphur content of Marine Fuel Oils used by ships by only allowing Bunker Fuels with less than 4.5% sulphur content in vessels trading to and from European ports and less than 1.5% sulphur content in SECAs (SOx Emission Control Area) like the Baltic and North Sea areas. Marine Fuel Oils manufactured by European refiners are low sulphur, with less than 1.0%, and high sulphur, with less than 3.5%, and viscosity at 50º C of less than 180 cst or 380 cst. Marine Fuel Oils typically manfactured at Singapore are 380 cst or 180 cst, with a maximum sulphur content of 4.5% and a typical of 3.5%, accounting 380 cst for 90% of the Cracked Fuel Oil tonnes supplied in the region.
Our company offers to our clients spot or term transactions of Cracked Fuel Oil from petroleum and trading companies:
- Cracked M100 type IV, V, VI and VII manufactured by Baltic, Russian and other CIS refiners delivered at Baltic, Black and Caspian Sea ports.
- Low Sulphur and High Sulphur RME25, RMF25, RMG35, RMH35 manufactured by European refiners and delivered at Mediterranean and NWE ports.
- RMG35 manufactured by South East Asian refiners delivered at Singapore and other South Asian ports.