World Bunkering > News > Winter 2009 > ECOTek bunkers in North West

ECOTek LLC operates a specialised fuel oil terminal in St. Petersburg and produces bunker fuels for the Russian part of the Gulf of Finland, which is the largest regional bunker market of the Russian Federation. The company commenced bunkering on 1 July 2009, having bought the tanker Amur from Eco Phoenix Holding OJSC. The double-bottom, double-hull tanker has a cargo capacity of 1,320 tons. ECOTek bunkers IFO 30, IFO 180, and IFO 380 with 1.5% sulphur content, as well as MGO.

The company’s specialised multi-field fuel oil terminal started operations three years ago and its annual capacity of petroleum products amounts to 20,000 tons. The tank storage farm consists of six tankers (3,000, 1,000 and 400m3) giving an overall storage volume of 7,000 cu m. The rail loading-and-receiving rack is designed to receive eight tank-cars at a time.

Overland transhipment is carried out via four car loading stations, with a pumping station operating at an overall capacity of 200 cu m per hour. ECOTek has all the necessary certificates and facilities available for production of almost any type of bunker oil conforming to ISO 8217:2005 standards. The company plans to enlarge its customer base and improve its capacity in future. Petroleum products are delivered in railway tanks to the terminal directly from oil refineries in Russia.

Cracked fuel oil makes up about 10% of the overall volume of products delivered and straight-run fuel oil makes up the balance. Thus the company can guarantee high quality of products, low coking properties and 1.5% sulphur content. Being conveniently situated not far from the ring road, means speedy delivery of products, both to the terminal and to the final consumer.

According to Dmitrii Galdanov, CEO of ECOTek OJSC, ingredients used for production require thorough control. “There are products which are the result of different oil refining processes. As a result, sulphur content in a tank may vary: 0.7% in one, 0.8% in another, 2.4% in third; it is impossible to talk about stability and quality of raw materials and products without knowing which materials are involved,” he explains.

Spot checking raw materials enables bunkering companies to independently carry out high-quality blending. The advantage of small petroleum farms is that they provide high-quality oil blending and can control the quality all along the processing chain; therefore at ECOTek a complex analysis of oil samples is carried out before pumping petroleum products into reservoirs. Additionally, there is a full analysis of each commercial shipment of fuel oil.

The production capacity of ECOTek, together with its own bunkering vessel, enables the company to present itself as a serious and responsible player in the bunkering market. The company has the whole chain of marine fuel delivery under the control of a single managing unit – from petroleum product delivery from oil refineries, fuel blending, production and storage, to bunkering.

ECOTek LLC
29, Polytekhnicheskaya Street,
Saint-Petersburg, Russia, 194064
Tel: +7 812 325 0210
Fax: +7 812 235 1358
E-mail: info@ekotek-spb.ru
Website: www.ekotek-spb.ru