Chemoil International has been ranked as
Singapore's leading bunker supplier by sales volume for the second year in a row in 2016, according to data released by the Maritime and Port Authority (MPA).
Sentek Marine & Trading - a company that has featured in the top three since 2012 - rose one place to second, whilst
Universal Energy - a supplier that has been in the top 10 since 2013 but never before broken into the top three - rose four places to third.
Also making up the top five were oil majors
ExxonMobil and
BP - two companies that in previous years have been Singapore's top two bunker suppliers. ExxonMobil rose one place to fourth, thus securing a place in the top five for the second year in a row, having been ranked 6th, 11th and 8th between 2012 and 2014. BP, Singapore's top supplier for 12 consecutive years between and 2003 and 2014, recorded the biggest drop for last year's top 10 suppliers, falling three places to fifth.
Transocean Oil and Shell Eastern Trading both fell two places to sixth and eighth respectively; Equatorial Marine Fuel Management Services rose one place to eighth; and both Global Energy Trading and Panoil Petroleum were unchanged at 9th and 10th. Significantly, no companies rose up the list to break into the top 10 in 2016.
The new entrant to make the biggest impact in 2016 was
PetroChina International, which secured 12th position in its first year as a supplier in Singapore. PetroChina-owned Singapore Petroleum (SPC), meanwhile, was no longer listed, having been ranked as the 11th-biggest supplier in 2015.
Other new entrants Maersk Oil Trading Singapore and Harley Marine Asia were ranked 36th and 47th respectively.
Suppliers to rise significantly up the list were
Palmstone Marine Services (up 15 places to 23rd), Sinanju Marine Services (up 12 to 43rd), Pegasus Maritime (up 9 to 44th), Costank (up 7 to 14th) and Sirius Marine (up 7 to 29th).
In addition to Costank, Brightoil Petroleum and Aegean Bunkering also improved their ranking to break into the top 20: Brightoil jumped five places to 18th and Aegean was up two to 20th.
The biggest declines were recorded by
Uni Petroleum, which fell 16 places to 45th, and Palmstone Tankers & Trading, which dropped eight places to 48th.
A full list of Singapore's 58 licensed suppliers by volume has been provided below. A comparison with the previous year has been included in brackets for each company.
1 (--) Chemoil International Pte Ltd
2 (+1) Sentek Marine & Trading Pte Ltd
3 (+4) Universal Energy Pte Ltd
4 (+1) ExxonMobil Asia Pacific Pte Ltd
5 (-3) BP Singapore Pte Ltd
6 (-2) Transocean Oil Pte Ltd
7 (+1) Equatorial Marine Fuel Management Services Pte Ltd
8 (-2) Shell Eastern Trading Pte Ltd
9 (--) Global Energy Trading Pte Ltd
10 (--) Panoil Petroleum Pte Ltd
11 (+4) Toyota Tsusho Petroleum (S) Pte Ltd
12 (NE) Petrochina International (Singapore) Pte Ltd
13 (+3) SK Energy International Pte Ltd
14 (+7) Costank (S) Pte Ltd
15 (-1) Golden Island Diesel Oil Trading
16 (-3) Seven Seas Oil Trading Pte Ltd
17 (+2) Total Marine Fuels Pte Ltd
18 (+5) Brightoil Petroleum (Singapore) Pte Ltd
19 (+1) Consort Bunkers Pte Ltd
20 (+2) Aegean Bunkering (Singapore) Pte Ltd
21 (+4) Bomin Bunker Oil Pte Ltd
22 (-5) Wired Bunkering Pte Ltd
23 (+15) Palmstone Marine Services Pte Ltd
24 (--) Bunker House Petroleum Pte Ltd
25 (+5) Singamas Petroleum Trading Pte Ltd
26 (--) Inter-Pacific Petroleum Pte Ltd
27 (--) Pacific Bunkering Services Pte Ltd
28 (+4) Cathay Marine Fuel Oil Trading Pte Ltd
29 (+7) Sirius Marine Pte Ltd
30 (+5) Fratelli Cosulich Bunkers (S) Pte Ltd
31(-3) Ocean Bunkering Services Pte Ltd
32 (+5) Grandeur Trading & Services Pte Ltd
33 (+1) Marubeni Int'l Petroleum (S) Pte Ltd
34 (-3) Eng Hua Company (Pte) Ltd
35 (-2) Triton Bunkering Services Pte Ltd
36 (NE) Maersk Oil Trading Singapore Pte Ltd
37 (+2) Impex Marine (S) Pte Ltd
38 (+6) The Barrel Oil Pte Ltd
39 (+4) Southernpec (Singapore) Pte Ltd
40 (+6) Matrix Marine Fuels Pte Ltd
41 (--) Chevron Singapore Pte Ltd
42 (--) Global Marine Transportation Pte Ltd
43 (+12) Sinanju Marine Services Pte Ltd
44 (+9) Pegasus Maritime (S) Pte Ltd
45 (-16) Uni Petroleum Pte Ltd
46 (-1) Hai Yin Marine Pte Ltd
47 (NE) Harley Marine Asia Pte Ltd
48 (-8) Palmstone Tankers & Trading Pte Ltd
49 (-2) Kenoil Marine Services Pte Ltd
50 (-1) Victory Petroleum Trading Pte Ltd
51 (-3) Hin Leong Marine Interantional (Pte) Ltd
52 (-2) Eastpoint International Marketing Pte Ltd
53 (-1) Central Star Marine Supplies Pte Ltd
54 (-3) Hai Fu Marine Services Pte Ltd
55 (+4) Hong Lam Marine Pte Ltd
56 (+1) Bunker B Pte Ltd
57 (-1) Shell Eastern Petroleum (Pte) Ltd
58 (--) A Dot Marine Pte Ltd
(--) = same
(+) = up
(-) = down
(NE) = new entrant
Dropouts in 2016 (with 2015 ranking in brackets):
- Singapore Petroleum Company Ltd (2015: 11)
- Searights Maritime Services Pte Ltd (2015: 12), defunct
- Vermont UM Bunkering Ltd (2015: 18), licence cancelled
- AC Oil Pte Ltd (2015: 54), licence cancelled.
