FOBAS: Cat fines and Total Sediment Potential off specs at Singapore port
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The Lloyd’s Register Fuel Oil Bunkering Analysis and Advisory Service (FOBAS) recorded 94 instances of off-spec bunker samples from international ports in the period between 15 to 30 (2H) November.
Singapore, Rotterdam and Antwerp ports saw the most number of off-spec cases over a variety of issues during 2H November.
Several off-spec cases at Singapore were related to pour point; pour point cases at Singapore are “not a big issue” due to local weather conditions, a source earlier told Manifold Times.
The off-spec cases occurred when 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 bunker ports with reported off-spec bunker fuel cases in 2H November are as follows:
| Port | Characteristic | ISO 8217 Limit or Advised Value |
Final result | Unit |
| Singapore | Aluminium + Silicon | 60* | 95 | mg/kg |
| Singapore | Aluminium + Silicon | 60* | 77 | mg/kg |
| Singapore | Aluminium + Silicon | 60* | 76 | mg/kg |
| Singapore | Aluminium + Silicon | 60* | 96 | mg/kg |
| Singapore | Aluminium + Silicon | 60* | 95 | mg/kg |
| Singapore | Pour point | 0* | 9 | °C |
| Singapore | Pour point | 0* | 6 | °C |
| Singapore | Pour point | 30* | 36 | °C |
| Singapore | Pour point | 0* | 9 | °C |
| Singapore | Pour point | 0* | 9 | °C |
| Singapore | Pour point | 0* | 6 | °C |
| Singapore | Pour point | 0* | 6 | °C |
| Singapore | Pour point | 0* | 9 | °C |
| Singapore | Pour point | 0* | 6 | °C |
| Singapore | Pour point | 0* | 9 | °C |
| Singapore | Total Sediment Potential | 0.10* | 0.17 | % Mass |
| Singapore | Total Sediment Potential | 0.10* | 0.16 | % Mass |
| Singapore | Total Sediment Potential | 0.10* | 0.2 | % Mass |
| Singapore | Total Sediment Potential | 0.10* | 0.21 | % Mass |
| Singapore | Total Sediment Potential | 0.10* | 0.17 | % Mass |
| Rotterdam | Sulphur | 0.09** | 0.12 | % Mass |
| Rotterdam | Total Sediment Potential | 0.10* | 0.61 | % Mass |
| Rotterdam | Total Sediment Potential | 0.10* | 0.56 | % Mass |
| Rotterdam | Total Sediment Potential | 0.10* | 0.19 | % Mass |
| Rotterdam | Total Sediment Potential | 0.10* | 0.3 | % Mass |
| Rotterdam | Viscosity at 50°C | 377.0** | 402.9 | cSt |
| Rotterdam | Viscosity at 50°C | 380.0** | 399.8 | cSt |
| Rotterdam | Viscosity at 50°C | 380.0** | 402.7 | cSt |
| Rotterdam | Viscosity at 50°C | 0.50* | 0.65 | % Volume |
| Antwerp | Aluminium + Silicon | 60* | 146 | mg/kg |
| Antwerp | CCAI | 860* | 865 | Index |
| Antwerp | CCAI | 860* | 865 | Index |
| Antwerp | Total Sediment Potential | 0.10* | 0.3 | % Mass |
| Antwerp | Viscosity at 50°C | 695.0** | 736.6 | cSt |
| Antwerp | Viscosity at 50°C | 377.0** | 399.1 | cSt |
| Antwerp | Viscosity at 50°C | 699.6** | 738.4 | cSt |
| Antwerp | Water | 0.50* | 1.30 | % Volume |
*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
Earlier FOBAS reports on off-spec fuels and bunker alerts in 2019 have been organised in chronological order below:
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Related: FOBAS: 16% decrease in off-specs of bunker samples in 1H May
Related: FOBAS: 69 cases of off-spec bunker cases identified in 2H April
Related: FOBAS: High Acid number and possible fuel contamination at Fujairah
Related: FOBAS: 72% increase in off-spec marine fuel cases in 2H March
Related: FOBAS: Off-spec marine fuel cases down 16% in 1H March
Related: FOBAS Alert: Low flash point residual fuels at Singapore port
Related: FOBAS: 52% increase in off-spec marine fuel cases in 2H Feb
Related: FOBAS: 48 off-specification marine fuel cases in 1H February
Related: FOBAS: 91 instances of off-spec bunker fuel cases in 2H January
Related: FOBAS Alert: Off spec sediment bunker fuel oil from Singapore
Published: 9 December, 2019
