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Report: Terminal Fuel oil Operations Could be Metered
Mass flow metering, where the flow of bunker fuel is measured electronically, could be applied when fuel oil is transferred from oil terminals to bunkering ships in Singapore.
"The Technical Committee for Bunkering has submitted a proposal to the national standards body, Enterprise Singapore, for a new standard on quantity, measurement and sampling requirements for transfer of bunker fuel from oil terminals to bunker tankers using Mass Flow Metering," Enterprise Singapore said in a statement emailed to Ship & Bunker.
"This proposed standard complements existing standards to ensure transparent and fair trade in the bunkering ecosystem."
Mass flow metering is already used for MFO bunkering operations in the port, and will also be used for distillate bunkering from July next year.
A recent court case involved the illegal transfer of fuel oil from terminals while a run of off-specification fuel incidents hit the bunkering hub in August.
