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MABUX ARA LNG Bunker Index
Port LNG$/mton MGO LS$/mton Date
ARA
1 498.00
-119.00
1 430.00
-25.00
Sep 22
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Port	LNG$/mton	MGO LS$/mton	Date
ARA	1 498.00	-119.00	1 430.00	-25.00	Sep 22

MABUX Global Bunker Index

380HSFO$/mton		VLS FO$/mton		MGO LS$/mton		Date
684.49	-8.25	841.08	-17.44	1 549.25	-6.62	Sep 22

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All Indexes in $/mton	380HSFO			VLS FO			MGO LS			Date
All Indexes in $/mton	MBP Index	DBP Index	MDI	MBP Index	DBP Index	MDI	MBP Index	DBP Index	MDI	Date
Rotterdam	580	695	-115	680	787	-107	1 430	1 596	-166	Sep 22
Singapore	690	731	-41	845	900	-55	1 320	1 589	-269	Sep 22
Fujairah	695	679	+16	980	837	+143	1 655	1 652	+3	Sep 22
Houston	528	696	-168	761	827	-66	1 458	1 549	-91	Sep 22

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- 2026-09-22
  Oil dips below $100 as Iran reportedly offers to reopen Hormuz amid diplomacy push
  Oil prices turned lower on Tuesday, falling back below the $100 a barrel level, after Iran reportedly offered to unblock the Strait of Hormuz in return for a U.S. military de-escalation. Get premium commodity market insights with InvestingPro subscription By... Read more Oil prices turned lower on Tuesday, falling back below the $100 a barrel level, after Iran reportedly offered to unblock the Strait of Hormuz in return for a U.S. military de-escalation. Get premium commodity market insights with InvestingPro subscription
  
  By 09:45 ET (13:45 GMT), Brent crude futures, the global benchmark, had dropped by 1.4% to $98.91 a barrel, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude futures had declined by 1.5% to $94.36 a barrel. Brent dropped 3.4% on Monday, while WTI fell 4.5%. Both benchmarks posted their lowest closing levels since September 9 and extended a multi-day streak of declines.
  
  Tehran has said it is open to reopening Hormuz within seven days should Washington take initial steps to ease its military pressure, Kyodo News reported, citing a senior Iranian government official.
  
  The proposal has already been conveyed to Washington through mediators, Kyodo News reported, adding that Iran is calling for talks aimed at reaching a permanent resolution to the conflict.
  
  Tehran effectively shuttered Hormuz shortly after the start of a joint U.S. and Israeli assault on the country in late February, constricting a critical waterway through which roughly a fifth of the world’s oil and liquefied natural gas flowed prior to the conflict.
  
  Although the war has settled into an extended stalemate, hopes have grown that efforts to find a diplomatic resolution may make progress at a United Nations General Assembly in New York this week. Iran is aiming to use the gathering to consult with countries acting as intermediaries, Kyodo News said.
  
  Progress toward an agreement is possible, although a meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Iranian counterpart Masoud Pezeshkian on the sidelines of the General Assembly was ruled out, the report said. Trump has said he is open to meeting with Pezeshkian.
  
  Meanwhile, some recent oil supply concerns have eased. Saudi Arabia has reportedly increased crude shipments through Hormuz. According to a JPMorgan note from September 18, Saudi oil flows through the strait averaged about 2.9 million barrels per day over the past six days, up sharply from August, according to Reuters.
  
  Saudi Arabia has also restarted operations at its key east-west pipeline after it was damaged in recent attacks and forced to close on September 13, Reuters reported. Exports out of the Saudi port of Yanbu on the Red Sea could resume later today, the report added.
  
  Still, the market remains vulnerable to renewed disruptions. Iran-aligned Houthis in Yemen have battled with Saudi-backed forces for critical areas of the country, including a region which dominates the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, a narrow waterway linking the Red Sea with the Gulf of Aden. Saudi Arabia has relied on the passageway to connect crude exports to global markets since the effective shuttering of the nearby Strait of Hormuz.
  
  Elsewhere, Libya’s Sharara oil field has seen output fall to around 127,000 barrels per day, compared to roughly 340,000 barrels per day previously, after an armed group blocked a pipeline linking the field with the Zawiya export terminal, analysts at ING flagged.
  
  Russia may also extend a ban on most diesel exports as Ukrainian attacks on energy infrastructure crimp refinery runs, Bloomberg News reported. Diesel prices have climbed to record highs in the U.S. and Europe due to constraints to exports from major producer like Russia, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Source: Investing.com
- 2026-09-22
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- 2026-09-22
  Petrobras suspends bunkering in Rio Grande
  Brazilian national oil company Petrobras informed ship.energy yesterday (21 September) that a temporary suspension of bunkering in Rio Grande had been put in place as a result of ‘adverse weather conditions’. In a statement sent to ship.energy at 21:15... Read more
- 2026-09-22
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- 2026-09-22
  Singapore forum flags up need for ‘stronger collaboration’ on preparedness for alt.fuels pollution incidents
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- 2026-09-22
  Repairs to Ras Laffan LNG trains will take three years, says QatarEnergy President & CEO
  Iran’s attacks in March on Ras Laffan Industrial City, the location of the world’s largest LNG export facility, resulted in significant energy infrastructure damage and in an update this week His Excellency Mr Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi, the Minister of State... Read more
- 2026-09-22
  WK NatPower teaming up with AREL on marine electrification in HK’s Aberdeen area
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- 2026-09-22
  Oil rises slightly ahead of potential US-Iran talks
  Oil prices gained on Tuesday as the market steadied after several days of declines, with investors awaiting developments on potential US-Iran talks at the United Nations General Assembly this week. The Brent crude futures November contract gained 22... Read more Oil prices gained on Tuesday as the market steadied after several days of declines, with investors awaiting developments on potential US-Iran talks at the United Nations General Assembly this week.
  
  The Brent crude futures November contract gained 22 cents, or 0.22%, to $100.57 a barrel at 0021 GMT. The WTI October contract, which expires on Tuesday, crept up 2 cents, or 0.02%, to $95.8 a barrel.
  
  The more actively traded November contract was up 13 cents, or 0.14%, at $92.49 a barrel.
  
  Iran and the US exchanged threats on Sunday, though President Donald Trump said he would be open to meeting Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, who is expected to be in New York this week for the UN General Assembly.
  
  "The move higher in WTI and the stronger open in Brent have the appearance of a typical short-covering bounce after the recent decline, rather than a fundamental shift," said Tim Waterer, chief market analyst at KCM Trade.
  
  "Traders who were positioned for further downside are taking some risk off the table while the diplomatic narrative plays out."
  
  Over the weekend, Iran also conveyed its conditions to mediators for re-engaging in negotiations, Al Jazeera reported, citing Iran’s security chief, Mohsen Rezaei.
  
  Waterer added that prices were likely to remain range-bound and sensitive to headlines until there was either clear progress or a setback in diplomatic efforts between the United States and Iran.
  
  Middle East tensions remained elevated after Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis said they attacked Riyadh and a Saudi Aramco facility in Yanbu and stepped up efforts to cut off Saudi-backed forces from the Red Sea coast.
  
  China has privately urged Tehran to help curb attacks by the Houthis, three Iranian sources said, after Saudi Arabia appealed to Beijing following a recent surge in the group’s military operations.
  
  Aramco has increased exports through the Strait of Hormuz after attacks on its East-West Pipeline forced it to halt some shipments through Yanbu.
  
  Saudi Aramco loaded about 14 million barrels of crude oil on seven supertankers inside the Gulf on Sunday, tanker tracking data showed.
  
  Separately, Libya’s National Oil Corp Chairman Massoud Suleman told Reuters on Monday that the country’s Sharara oilfield has seen a partial reduction in production, without giving a reason. Source: Reuters/Investing.com
- 2026-09-22
  The Secret Houthi-U.S. Deal That Could Push Saudi Arabia Back to Beijing
  Back at the start of the U.S.’s ‘Operation Epic Fury’, OilPrice.com predicted three courses of action that Iran would take as it moved through the conflict escalation gears. First, most obviously, although apparently not to President Donald Trump’s team,... Read more Back at the start of the U.S.’s ‘Operation Epic Fury’, OilPrice.com predicted three courses of action that Iran would take as it moved through the conflict escalation gears. First, most obviously, although apparently not to President Donald Trump’s team, was to close the Strait of Hormuz to cause oil, liquefied natural gas (LNG) and refined products prices to soar -- check. Second, was to launch attacks on Saudi Arabian oil infrastructure via the Tehran-backed Yemeni Houthis to further inflate energy prices and undermine the idea that U.S. allies in the Middle East could rely on Washington to protect them from Iran -- check. Third, was the blockade of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, the other critical regional transit route for the world’s oil, LNG and refined products, to ramp up both the higher energy price- and regional insecurity-pressure still further. This last element has not yet been fully activated, but it is not far off. So, where do Iran and its Houthi protagonists go from here?
  
  Within the next few days, the Houthis are likely to ‘officially’ close off the Bab el-Mandeb Strait to all ‘enemy’ shipping rather than to just the Saudis, as has been the case, a very senior energy source who works closely with Iran’s Petroleum Ministry exclusively told OilPrice.com over the weekend. “That will mean Iran effectively holds hostage up to 42% of the world’s crude oil flows [the Strait of Hormuz roughly 30% of oil, and Bab el-Mandeb about 12%] historically flowed on a historical basis and up to 30% of its LNG flows [Strait of Hormuz roughly 20% and Bab el-Mandeb around 10%], and the figures for refined products are at least as disturbing,” he said. Indeed, before the current blockades, the Strait of Hormuz accounted for up to 5.5 million barrels per day (bpd) of fully refined petroleum products including diesel, jet fuel, and petrochemical feedstocks like naphtha that were already cracked at Middle Eastern mega-refineries before entering maritime transit lanes. Meanwhile, the Bab el-Mandeb Strait -- the key gateway into southern Europe from the Gulf of Aden through the Red Sea and then Suez Canal -- handled up to 2.6 million bpd. “The soaring prices of many of these refined products -- notably diesel and jet fuel -- are possibly even more serious than for oil and LNG because Europe shut down many of its own ageing refineries over the years, so it relies on importing pre-cracked, finished diesel and jet fuel directly coming from the Middle East through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait,” he added. The recent seizures by the Houthis of several key islands in the Red Sea -- including the centrally-positioned Perim Island in the mouth of the Strait between Yemen and Djibouti -- give the group and Iran far greater leverage over the Red Sea/Suez Canal transit route than they had before. In fact, International Monetary Fund (IMF) PortWatch data shows that overall shipping through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait has dropped nearly 90% below normal averages, even without the Houthis declaring a general blockade on it. “Using the Houthis on the Bab el-Mandeb has been a clever move from Tehran because it stretches already-stretched U.S. forces, and leaves Washington’s previous assurances that it would look after its allies in the region looking like hot air,” he highlighted.
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  Staggeringly for many observers -- not least, the Saudis -- came recent news that not only had the U.S. directly refused to help the country militarily against the latest Houthi, and by extension Iranian, threats but also that Washington was in direct contact with the Houthi leaders. Confirmed by OilPrice.com through Iranian and Washington sources with close knowledge of the matter, just over a week ago Trump refused to authorise direct U.S. air strikes to halt the Houthi advance along the Red Sea coast when asked to do so by Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS) in two separate telephone calls on 10 September. This was the day the Houthis completed their capture of the strategic port city of Mokha and were pushing quickly across several Red Coast targets. Trump instead sent CENTCOM Commander Admiral Brad Cooper to Riyadh for emergency intelligence-sharing coordination and has still not authorised any military assistance for the Saudis. Given Trump’s legendary long memory when it comes to grudges, perhaps the refusal was partly because MbS had persistently refused to take the telephone calls from former U.S. President Joe Biden in March 2022, when Washington desperately needed help from the Saudis to help bring spiralling oil prices down after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, as analysed in full in my latest book. Perhaps it was due to ‘assurances’ from the Houthis that they would not attack U.S. vessels in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait. Such assurances were reiterated during the direct U.S.–Houthi negotiations that took place at the U.S. Embassy in Muscat, Oman, mediated by the Omani government, over the weekend of 12–13 September 2026, with the specific face-to-face session occurring on 13 September. “Up until then, the Saudis still thought the U.S. had its back,” a senior source who works closely with the European Union’s (E.U.) security complex exclusively told OilPrice.com last week. “After that, it [Saudi Arabia] knows it’s on its own now,” he added.
  
  Widening the current military campaign against Saudi Arabia is certainly another of the next steps the Houthis will take, if it gets the chance, according to the Iranian source. This may come sooner rather than later, given Saudi plans -- discussed again over the weekend -- to form a standalone 14-country task force called the Multinational Maritime Defense Coalition (MMDC), which will also include elements of the recently formed Mecca Joint Defence Agreement (MJDA) framework analysed by OilPrice.com. The MMDC comprises MJDA countries (Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey), Egypt, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Jordan, Yemen (the anti-Houthi Presidential Leadership Council), Djibouti, Somalia, Sudan, Bangladesh, and Nigeria. The inclusion here of Djibouti may not be helpful to the Saudis because -- as also examined in my latest book on the new global oil market order -- Iran’s main superpower backer, China, has a vice-like grip over the country due to predatory loans connected to its ‘Belt and Road Initiative’ multi-generational power-grab project. In fact, following Chinese investment of around US$14 billion in the country (totalling over 70% of Djibouti’s debt, and making it the country’s biggest debtor), Beijing in 2017 created its first overseas military base there. Given that Chinese vessels remain largely unaffected on the orders of Iran from the current blockades on the Strait of Hormuz or the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, it appears that Djibouti’s involvement in the MMDC will just be part of a balancing act geared toward protecting Chinese economic self-interest, rather than a genuine geopolitical desire to undermine Iran’s strategic goals. Consequently, anything China does in this ‘alliance’ is likely to be confined to quietly pressuring Tehran to tell the Houthis to keep the disruptions selective.
  
  Worse still for Saudi Arabia’s plans to quell the Houthis threat is that Beijing’s highly integrated BRI-related economic and logistics corridor runs all the way from the Horn of Africa to the wider western Indian Ocean, and into another of Riyadh’s ‘partners’ in the MJDA -- Pakistan. Djibouti is not just home to a massive Chinese military base but also acts as the maritime centre for Ethiopia, with Beijing owning the US$4 billion Addis Ababa–Djibouti Railway essential for Ethiopia’s exports. To the south of Ethiopia is Kenya, which China has established as its primary commercial maritime gateway into the African continent through the building of the Mombasa Port Expansion project and the Lamu Deep-Water Port. And northeast of Djibouti across the Arabian Sea is the crown jewel in China’s maritime choke point strategy -- Pakistan’s Gwadar Port. As thoroughly detailed in my latest book, Gwadar is directly tied to the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, officially a commercial deep-water port operated by China Overseas Ports Holding Company, but it is heavily constructed to act as a dual-use facility capable of resupplying, repairing, and docking the People’s Liberation Army Navy’s capital ships. Moreover, in each of these areas there is also ample opportunity for the Houthis to hook up with fellow like-minded Islamic extremist terrorists too, thus creating a force multiplier effect across the region. Aside from the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan operating widely across that country, Al-Qaeda-affiliated extremist group Al-Shabaab is based in Somalia with a very broad reach into Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Sudan. Looking at all of these factors, and given the strong relationship that had built up between Saudi Arabia and China in the years following the end of the 2014-2016 Oil Price War, it may well be that the key victory for the Houthis to come will be a switch back in Riyadh’s primary geopolitical alliance to China, and away from the U.S. Source: Oilprice.com
- 2026-09-22
  MABUX: Global bunker indices to extend declines on Sep. 22 amid expectations of Middle East de-escalation.
  The MABUX World Bunker Index — a composite benchmark reflecting daily prices for 380 HSFO, VLSFO, and MGO – continued its downward trend on Sep. 21 for the second consecutive session: 380 HSFO: USD/MT: 692.74 (-8.43) VLSFO: USD/MT: 858.52 (-11.08) MGO:... Read more The MABUX World Bunker Index — a composite benchmark reflecting daily prices for 380 HSFO, VLSFO, and MGO – continued its downward trend on Sep. 21 for the second consecutive session:
  
  380 HSFO: USD/MT: 692.74 (-8.43)
  VLSFO: USD/MT: 858.52 (-11.08)
  MGO: USD/MT: 1 555.87 (-15.20)
  
  As of Sep. 21, the MABUX Market Differential Index (MDI), which monitors the spread between Market Bunker Prices (MBP) and the MABUX Digital Bunker Benchmark (DBP), indicated the following dynamics across the four major global bunkering hubs—Rotterdam, Singapore, Fujairah, and Houston:
  
  • HSFO segment: Fujairah was the only overvalued port, although its MDI premium narrowed by $13, moving closer to the 100-percent MBP/DBP correlation level. The other three hubs stayed undervalued. MDI discounts widened by $9 in Rotterdam and $28 in Singapore, while narrowing by $12 in Houston. Undervaluation in both Rotterdam and Houston remained above the $100 mark.
  
  • VLSFO segment: Fujairah remained the only overvalued port, with its MDI premium increasing by $7. The other three hubs were undervalued. The MDI discount declined by $2 in Rotterdam, increased by 32 in Singapore and remained unchanged in Houston. Rotterdam’s undervaluation and Fujairah’s overvaluation stayed above the $100 mark.
  
  • MGO LS segment: All four ports remained undervalued. MDI discounts widened by $34 in Rotterdam, $74 in Singapore , and $34 in Fujairah, while narrowing by $12 in Houston. Undervaluation in Rotterdam, Singapore and Houston remained above the $100 threshold.
  
  MABUX expects Global bunker indices to extend their downward movement on Sep. 22, supported by expectations of de-escalation in the Middle East:
  380 HSFO: minus 5-10 USD/MT, VLSFO: minus 5-13 USD/MT, MGO LS: minus 5–15 USD/MT.
  Source: MABUX

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