West of England Bunker Fuel Quality Advisory Service
The introduction of the Very Low Sulphur Fuel Oil (VLSFO) type into the family of the existing fuel grades, following the 2020 changes to MARPOL Annex VI, has made the picture even more diverse than before.
West of England has joined forces with Veritas Petroleum Services (VPS) – a market leader in marine fuel testing, data, and intelligence services – to provide a unique set of statistics based entirely on bunker fuel sample analysis results obtained by VPS.
Information on important fuel quality parameters such as viscosity, density, sulphur content, instability, etc. are derived from observed average values, as well as off-specification occurrences. The information can readily be seen for the 10 top bunkering ports (by volume) within West’s global information portal Neptune. The statistics are updated every two weeks. Please note however that Neptune is only available to current Members of the Club, their brokers and listed correspondents.