International bunkering firm TFG Marine on 16 January signed a JV deal with state-owned Oman Oil Marketing Company to sell marine fuels at the Omani ports of Duqm, Muscat, and Sohar.
TFG Marine, itself a JV of Trafigura and shipowners Frontline and Golden Ocean, currently markets very-low sulfur fuel oil and low sulfur gasoil from Sohar, which is home to Oman’s largest oil storage facility (MEES, 13 September 2024). Sohar is eclipsed as a bunkering hub by global number three Fujairah roughly 90km north. But Muscat has plans for it to be a future LNG bunkering hub including TotalEnergies’ 1mn t/y Marsa LNG bunker project (MEES, 24 January) (CONTINUED - 106 WORDS)