Refinery delivers first IMO-spec fuel oil

Sinopec Corp’s Jinling refinery in the eastern province of Jiangsu produced its first cargo of low-sulfur marine fuel of 4,200 tons, the state oil and gas group said.

The Sinopec statement did not give further details, but a refinery executive told Reuters the fuel meets the new International Maritime Organization (IMO) emission standards, with sulfur content lower than 0.5 percent

The plant becomes one of China’s first refineries making marine fuel able to meet the IMO specifications, following Sinopec subsidiaries such as Shanghai Petrochemical Corp and the refinery in Hainan that rolled out pilot productions in small qualities.

IMO will ban ships from using fuel oil with a sulfur content above 0.5 percent, compared with 3.5 percent now, unless they are equipped with exhaust “scrubbers” to clean up sulfur emissions, starting in 2020.

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