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OIL The IMO imposed new shipping rules at conference, is aimed at storing gas condensate
the start of this year that among other things from a number of South Pars refineries with a
Uniper to provide maritime significantly cut the amount of sulphur that nominal capacity of 640,000 cubic metres, an
equivalent of 4 million barrels.
is permitted in marine fuels. The UN body is
biofuel at Fujairah with now looking to strengthen requirements for Oil and Gas Company, eight tanks each with
In the project, which was ordered by Pars
vessel energy efficiency and impose tougher
local partner carbon intensity reduction requirements. a capacity of 80,000 cubic metres (500,000
barrels) and a total capacity of 640,000 cubic
After manufacturing its biofuels for 10
Germany’s Uniper has teamed up with UAE- years, Neutral Fuels finally began supplying metres with a floating roof and two fire tanks
based Neutral Fuels to provide maritime them as a maritime fuel in February this and fuel tanks, piping network and systems,
biofuels in Fujairah, a major hub for year. It develops its biofuels exclusively from electrical, instrumentation and measuring
bunkering in the Gulf region. used vegetable cooking oil, and its use in systems and condensate transfer boosters and
The pair will blend very low sulphur fuel vessels requires no capital outlay, no change the related pumps, as well as industrial and
oil (VLSFO) supplied by Uniper’s marine to existing engines and no investment in administrative buildings were constructed.
fuel unit Uniper Energy DMCC (UED) with scrubbers that clean exhaust fumes. These tanks have the capacity to supply
Neutral Fuels’ biofuel. This will create a fuel “Partnering with UED now is the natural 480,000 barrels of gas condensate per day
that complies with International Maritime next step for us,” Hubbard said. to the Persian Gulf Star Refinery through
Organisation (IMO) standards. BNE the pumping stations of the refinery on the
The partnership will support the transition west side of the facility and also send gas
to cleaner energy, UED’s managing director condensate to the single point mooring (SPM)
Lars Liebig said. The company currently GAS No. 1 and 2 through 30-inch inlet-outlet
supplies up to 500,000 tonnes per year (tpy) of pipelines at up to 600,000 barrels per day.
VLSFO from its processing plant in Fujairah. Rouhani launches Construction project of storage facilities
“We will leverage our logistics and gas condensate measuring stations was
infrastructure and global customer base, centralised storage tanks in carried out under three EPC1, EPC2, EPC3
which stretches from the Middle East over (engineering, equipment procurement and
South/East Africa, and up to India, Singapore South Pars execution) contracts by the developers and
and China,” Liebig said. “The fuel will be consultants of Nardis Energy Projects, Arak
available for large tankers and containers, and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani officially Machinery Company and Pars Consulting
for smaller short sea and feeder vessels.” ordered commissioning of the centralised Engineers Company, and was funded by the
“It is fitting for the UAE to lead the way storage tanks of South Pars worth €29.2 domestic sources from the National Iranian
in making maritime biofuel widely available million and Rls.2,200 billion via video Oil Company (NIOC) and the National
to the shipping industry,” Neutral Fuels’ chief conference. Development Fund of Iran (Article 12 of
commercial officer Gary Hubbard added. The project of constructing storage Elimination of Production Barriers Act).
“The UAE was quick to adopt the UN’s facilities and gas condensate measuring Construction of the project generated 160
sustainable development goals and has been stations, which was put into operation today direct jobs and its operation needs 50 people
particularly active in working to cut emissions (Thursday, November 26) by the order on duty.
of CO2.” of President Hassan Rouhani via video SHANA

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