Middle East News

Speaking at the Middle East Bunkering Convention (MEBC), Forecast Technology’s Technical Sales Director Stuart Hall revealed that the BunkerTrace Marine Fuel Assurance package is beng extended to offer verification of biofuels feedstocks.

Last year was not so much a jolt to the bunker market as an electrical storm. But amid the chaos, opportunities remain for players big and small alike.

Oman Oil plans to use its new Duqm terminal – supported by the nearby 230,000 barrels a day (b/d) refinery that is now nearing completion – as the ‘cornerstone’ for its bunkering ambitions in the Sultanate.  

The Fujairah bunker industry felt the impact of demand contraction last year with monthly volumes dropping back from 700,000 mt in 2019 to 575,000 mt, said Sean Burgin, Senior Purchaser at Glander International Bunkering, at the opening session of the virtual Middle East Bunkering Convention.

The shipping company says that the new service will connect directly, on a weekly basis, all major western Mediterranean ports, with the ports of Ashdod and Haifa in Israel and Alexandria in Egypt.

The national oil company’s new Sustainability Strategy includes a ‘clear direction towards reducing the emissions intensity of Qatar’s LNG facilities by 25% and of its upstream facilities by at least 15%’.

Petrospot is excited to launch the international bunkering sector’s conference calendar for 2021 with the Virtual Middle East Bunkering Convention (MEBC21) on 26-27 January.

The dual-fuelled Global Star, built by Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME), is the second out of four newbuilds to be delivered to the Global Shipping Co, the joint venture between Nakilat and Maran Ventures.

The Clean Fuels Project for Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) has reached a major milestone with the with the start-up of the Crude Distillation Unit (CDU) 111 at Mina Abdullah Refinery.

The two companies are to blend Uniper Energy DMCC’s (UED) very low sulphur fuel oil (VLSFO) and Neutral Fuels’ biofuel, creating a marine fuel that meets the ISO 8217:2010 RMG380 specification.