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India’s IOC plans IMO-compliant marine fuel output

  • Märkte: Oil products
  • 31.05.19

India's biggest refiner state-controlled IOC plans to produce 18,000 b/d of marine fuel that complies with the new International Maritime Organisation (IMO) sulphur cap when it is introduced next year.

The company will produce bunker fuel that meets the new 0.5pc sulphur cap mostly from its 274,000 b/d Koyali refinery on the west coast, with a small amount produced at the 150,000 b/d Haldea refinery on India's east coast. The IMO-compliant fuels will be sold to oceangoing vessels when the new regulations are introduced in January 2020.

IOC does not currently produce any 0.5pc sulphur marine fuels. It produces around 10,000 b/d of marine fuel oil that meets the existing IMO sulphur cap of 3.5pc.

Indian refiners currently supply around 15,000 b/d of bunker fuel, an IOC official said.

India produced around 150,000 b/d of 3.5pc sulphur fuel oil in April, flat from a year earlier, according to preliminary data from the oil ministry. Domestic fuel oil demand declined to 109,400 b/d from 113,000 b/d over the period, while fuel oil exports rose to 12,000 b/d from 3,000 b/d. The oil ministry does not provide separate data for bunker fuel.

The new global IMO rules require the maximum sulphur content in marine fuel oil to be reduced to 0.5pc from the current level of 3.5pc, effective 1 January 2020. Vessels that use higher-sulphur fuel oil must have special pollution control systems in place to reduce sulphur emissions.


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