Owing of its lower cost compared to cleaner sources of fuel such as distillates, heavy fuel oil is majorly used as a fuel source for marine vessel propulsion. Heavy fuel oil has many layering, and ...

Vast stretches of Russian coast have been tarred by heavy fuel oil from two freighters that foundered in a storm.

on the use of Heavy Fuel Oil, HFO, in the Arctic region adopted by the United Nations maritime body, the International Maritime Organization (IMO), at the Marine Environment Protection Committee ...

The ecological catastrophe began December 15, when two Russian oil tankers, the Volgoneft-212 and the Volgoneft-239, sank during a storm in the Kerch Strait.

Green lobby groups are calling on northern European countries to ban the dumping of scrubber waste in their waters. A ...

The study also compared the behavior of the Wakashio's VLSFO with traditional marine heavy fuel oils using models developed from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's oil spill ...

LNG, heavy fuel oil and marine gas oil are used by ships. Large vessels prefer using heavy fuel oil because of its low cost. BBGI intends to deliver the new fuel to a marine fleet operated by ...

One sank and the other ran aground, pouring around 2,400 tonnes of a heavy fuel oil called mazut into the surrounding waters, authorities estimate. Russia's Delfa centre, which rescues and ...