FOBAS: Singapore tops off-spec bunker list in H1 October
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The Lloyd’s Register Fuel Oil Bunkering Analysis and Advisory Service (FOBAS) recorded the largest number of off-specification bunker fuel samples at Singapore port for the period between 1st and 14th October 2018.
Globally, it posted 76 off-spec instances where a result was outside the 95% confidence limit of either ISO 8217 6th edition test parameter or a value given by the BDN or sample label.
The top three bunker ports with reported off-spec bunker fuel cases in H1 October are as follows:
| Port | Characteristic | ISO 8217 Limit or Advised Value |
Final result | Unit |
| Singapore | Flash point | 60.00*** | 39.00 | °C |
| Singapore | Pour point | 0* | 6 | oC |
| Singapore | Pour point | 0* | 6 | oC |
| Singapore | Pour point | 0* | 6 | oC |
| Singapore | Pour point | 0* | 6 | oC |
| Singapore | Water | 0.50* | 0.90 | % Volume |
| Singapore | Water | 0.50* | 1.10 | % Volume |
| Singapore | Water | 0.50* | 0.75 | % Volume |
| Rotterdam | Density at 15°C | 1.0076** | 1.0136 | kg/l |
| Rotterdam | Density at 15°C | 0.9910** | 0.9921 | kg/l |
| Rotterdam | Viscosity at 50°C | 373.9** | 401.0 | cSt |
| Rotterdam | Viscosity at 50°C | 674.5** | 739.3 | cSt |
| Rotterdam | Viscosity at 50°C | 694.4** | 764.6 | cSt |
| Rotterdam | Viscosity at 50°C | 380.0** | 400.8 | cSt |
| Antwerp | Viscosity at 40°C | 3.25** | 6.05 | cSt |
| Antwerp | Viscosity at 40°C | 4.90** | 6.02 | cSt |
| Antwerp | Viscosity at 40°C | 4.90** | 6.03 | cSt |
| Antwerp | Viscosity at 50°C | 377.0** | 434.8 | cSt |
| Antwerp | Viscosity at 50°C | 377.0** | 407.0 | cSt |
Related: FOBAS: Rotterdam continues to be top off-spec bunker port in H2 September
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Published: 18 October, 2018
