Argus HVO price assessments

Argus HVO (hydrotreated vegetable oil) assessments are key prices for the European and Asian market, providing fair and reflective daily values for this growing and increasingly important renewable fuel market.

Argus publishes a range of HVO prices for Europe and Asia:

• Class I: based on food and feed crops as feedstock but excluding palm oil
• Class II: based on used cooking oil (UCO)
• Class III: based on tallow (animal fat) cat. 3
• Class IV: based on palm oil mill effluent (POME)
• HVO fob China based on used cooking oil (UCO)
• HVO class II fob Strait of Malacca

The primary basis for these price assessments is 1,000t fob barges traded in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Antwerp, Dordrecht, Flushing and Ghent.

The basis for the Chinese HVO price assessment is fob China cargoes of 3,000-5,000t.