FOBAS: 52% increase in off-spec marine fuel cases in 2H Feb
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The Lloyd’s Register Fuel Oil Bunkering Analysis and Advisory Service (FOBAS) recorded a 52% increase in off-specification marine fuel cases during the period between 15 to 28 (2H) February 2019.
The service identified 73 off-spec bunker fuel cases in 2H February, an increase from 48 cases in 1H February.
The cases where considered off-spec when a result was outside the 95% confidence limit of either the ISO 8217 6th edition test parameter or a value given by the BDN or sample label.
The top bunker ports with reported off-spec bunker fuel cases in 2H February are as follows:
| Port | Characteristic | ISO 8217 Limit or Advised Value |
Final result | Unit |
| Singapore | Cetane Index | 40** | 37 | Index |
| Singapore | Pour point | 0* | 6 | oC |
| Singapore | Pour point | 0* | 6 | oC |
| Singapore | Pour point | 0* | 6 | oC |
| Singapore | Sodium | 100* | 164 | mg/kg |
| Singapore | Viscosity at 50°C | 375.9** | 402.0 | cSt |
| Singapore | Water | 0.50* | 1.55 | % Volume |
| Singapore | Water | Trace* | 1.85 | % Volume |
| Singapore | Water | 0.50* | 0.65 | % Volume |
| Antwerp | Flash point | 60.0*** | 58.50 | oC |
| Antwerp | Flash point | 60.0*** | 59.00 | oC |
| Antwerp | Viscosity at 50°C | 375.9** | 402.0 | cSt |
| Antwerp | Viscosity at 50°C | 375.9** | 402.0 | cSt |
| Antwerp | Viscosity at 50°C | 375.9** | 402.0 | cSt |
| Antwerp | Water | 0.50* | 1.20 | % Volume |
| Antwerp | Flash point | 60.0*** | 59.00 | oC |
| Houston | Aluminium + Silicon | 60* | 85 | mg/kg |
| Houston | Aluminium + Silicon | 60* | 76 | mg/kg |
| Houston | Ash | 0.100* | 0.511 | % Mass |
| Houston | Sodium | 100* | 117 | mg/kg |
| Houston | ULO | Detected | Detected | |
| Rotterdam | Sulphur | 0.09** | 0.13 | % Mass |
| Rotterdam | Viscosity at 40°C | 5.87** | 6.0 | cSt |
| Rotterdam | Viscosity at 50°C | 372.5** | 468.1 | cSt |
| Rotterdam | Viscosity at 50°C | 379.0** | 401.9 | cSt |
| Rotterdam | Viscosity at 50°C | 372.0** | 406.1 | cSt |
*ISO 8217 6th edition limit
**Advised value from BDN or sample label
***Due to the statutory significance of Flash Point the 95% confidence limit is not applied
Related: FOBAS: 48 off-specification marine fuel cases in 1H February
Related: FOBAS: 91 instances of off-spec bunker fuel cases in 2H January
Published: 18 February, 2019
