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Hindustan Petroleum starts supply of IMO 2020 compliant low sulphur fuel

India’s Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) has announced that it has made available its supply of IMO 2020 compliant bunker fuel for the shipping industry.

Lee Hong Liang, Asia Correspondent

January 6, 2020

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The first batch of HPCL’s 0.5% very low sulphur fuel oil (VLSFO) was produced in Visakh Refinery in early December 2019.

HPCL owns and operates two major refineries located in Visakhapatnam on the east coast and Mumbai on the west coast.

“The product meets the Residual Marine Grade (RMG) 0.50 Specification and ISO 8217:2017 standard requirements,” said Mukesh Kumar Surana, chairman and managing director of HPCL.

“This fuel also meets all quality guidelines detailed by the International Organisation of Standardisation in its recently released ISO 23263:2019 standard,” he added.

From 1 January 2020, the IMO has enforced a 0.5% global fuel sulphur content cap on all ocean-going ships. The sulphur content cap was lowered from 3.5% previously.

Separately, Indian Oil Corporation’s (IOC) Gujarat oil refinery and Haldia refinery have also started supplying IMO 2020 compliant bunker fuels since October and December last year, respectively.

India’s marine fuel demand is estimated at about 1m tonnes per year.

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Lee Hong Liang

Asia Correspondent

Singapore-based Lee Hong Liang provides a significant boost to daily coverage of the Asian shipping markets, as well as bringing with him an in-depth specialist knowledge of the bunkering markets.

Throughout Hong Liang’s 14-year career as a maritime journalist, he has reported ‘live’ news from conferences, conducted one-on-one interviews with top officials, and had the ability to write hard news and featured stories.

 

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