World Bunkering > News > Winter 2009 > Rosneft

The bunkering business of Rosneft, the largest oil company in Russia, incorporates two subsidiary companies – RN Bunker and Rosneft Marine – integrated as part of the parent company structure. Rosneft coordinates fuel deliveries for bunkering operations from the company refineries and offers transhipment, storage, production and storage capacity at the company’s own terminals in Nakhodka, Tuapse and Arkhangelsk. RN Bunker ensures logistics and manufacture (blending) of bunker fuel, rents and charters the bunkering tanker vessels, performs trading operations in the domestic market and arranges fuel deliveries to foreign shipowners.

The company operates in strict compliance with all bunkering regulations and rules; the products delivered match ISO 8217:2005 standard. Opening of the company representative offices in Nakhodka, Arkhangelsk, Tuapse and St. Petersburg and, later, in other cities will facilitate rapid physical deliveries to the customers onboard, ensuring the fuel quality control and a personal presence during sampling and measurements.

Rosneft Marine is the company established for the purpose of Rosneft bunkering business development abroad. The company’s areas of activity include offshore bunkering in the Baltic and Mediterranean Seas and in the Far East, as well as fuel deliveries to the fishing fleet both in the Pacific and the Atlantic. Rosneft started the bunkering business development programme in 2007. Currently the company delivers a wide range of petroleum products (IFO-380 cSt HS/LS, IFO-180 cSt, MGO, MDO), owns and operates 12 petroleum products delivery and reception terminals and 36 bunkering tankers. The company ensures its presence in the key regions in the three oceans and nine seas. Monthly volume of deliveries exceeds 100,000-130,000 tonnes.

Rosneft applies the highest standards of governance to all its bunkering services, and implements the accounting systems for the actual fuel movement, storage and issue to the bunkering tankers, providing monitoring across the entire logistics operation, and thus ensuring the rapid processing of orders from inquiry to BDR. The company business development strategy assumes building the company’s own tanker fleet.

Feasibility studies for 2,500 to 7,000 dwt tanker designs are underway. All vessels will be built in compliance with MG MARPOL 73/78 requirements, ISGOTT regulations as well as the international and national guidelines and rules. Vertical dispatch and coordination of all infrastructural elements of Rosneft bunkering business provides the synergy that the company will use to optimise business processes and achieve the following set goals:

• To be integrated into the global bunkering market, soon to exceed 400 million metric tonnes per year (mmty);
• To increase the attractiveness of the Russian ports;
• To ensure a stable and regular products sales market, independent of seasonal priorities;
• To increase sales efficiency through retail.

Rosneft plans to constantly increase the volumes of bunkering sales and to expand and maintain its marine and river bunkering presence to 25-33% in the various regions, as well as to reinforce its position in the global market. These projections are based on the rapid growth of the Russian transport infrastructure, with the upgrade of port facilities and construction of new terminals resulting in the increase of general and transit cargo transhipment and the number of port calls in the Russian ports.

Another factor, in addition to expansion of cargo turnover through the Russian ports, that would influence the bunkering volumes, would be the high quality of fuel and services, replacement of the outdated bunkering fleet and many other things to make the Russian market more attractive. The strategy of Rosneft bunkering business development assumes the increase of bunkering sales to 3-5 mmty by 2010, and by 2020, when the overall Russian bunkering market achieves 50-60 mmty, the company plans to sell the order of 15-16 mmt of fuel.

RN-Bunker LTD
115054, Dubininskaya Str. 31 A
Moscow, Russia
Tel: +7 (495) 777 4601
Fax: +7 (495) 231 4010
E-mail: rnbunker@rosneft.ru
Website: www.rosneft.com
Additional address:
117152, Zagorodnoe Route, bld.1, office 1001
Tel: +7 (495) 755 5243