Singapore: Cases of poor bunker fuel quality are anticipated to rise in the years ahead and statistics in the past 12 months have shown that 94% of respondents encountered problems with their fuel deliveries, according to DNV Petroleum Services (DNVPS).
A survey by global fuel-testing firm DNVPS indicated that the majority of whom indicated off-specification bunkers as their biggest challenge. About 43% said the bunker fuels delivered had “serious quality cases.”
Some of the problems include filter clogging, sludging, fuel pump sticking and seizures, and piston ring breakages. Some 14% of the total respondents have had to debunker the seriously off-specification fuels, while 9% managed to use their problematic fuels based on advice from their fuel management companies.
“Interestingly, 24% of the respondents said availability of low sulphur fuel oil products was a problem in 2010. About 35% were also short-supplied during deliveries,” DNVPS stated. “Over the next two to three years, regulatory pressure will continue to drive up the demand for low sulphur fuel oil products.
“To meet this demand, blending activities in the supply chain will increase correspondingly, and with that, we will most likely see a rise in the number of quality cases resulting from the use of blend components of poor quality.”
DNVPS warned that should bunker prices stay high, ship operators will have to be more vigilant in checking the quality and quantity of the products delivered to their vessels.
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