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MABUX ARA LNG Bunker Index
Port LNG$/mton MGO LS$/mton Date
ARA
1 356.00
0.00
1 365.00
+45.00
Sep 1
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Port	LNG$/mton	MGO LS$/mton	Date
ARA	1 356.00	0.00	1 365.00	+45.00	Sep 1

MABUX Global Bunker Index

380HSFO$/mton		VLS FO$/mton		MGO LS$/mton		Date
645.26	+0.98	808.25	+3.46	1 437.58	+11.32	Sep 3

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MABUX Market Differential Index (MDI)

Correlation between market bunker prices (MBP) and MABUX Digital Bunker Price Benchmark (DBP)

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	565	666	-101	686	751	-65	1 365	1 585	-220	Sep 3
Singapore	648	697	-49	852	854	-2	1 244	1 578	-334	Sep 3
Fujairah	643	647	-4	852	795	+57	1 448	1 641	-193	Sep 3
Houston	519	666	-147	719	785	-66	1 326	1 483	-157	Sep 3

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Latest News
- 2026-09-03
  Oil prices rise on escalation in Middle East
  Oil prices rose on Thursday after U.S. strikes on Iran and renewed Israeli threats against Tehran revived concerns about disruptions to Middle East supplies. Brent crude futures were up 59 cents, or 0.62%, at $96.22 a barrel by 1327 GMT while U.S.... Read more Oil prices rose on Thursday after U.S. strikes on Iran and renewed Israeli threats against Tehran revived concerns about disruptions to Middle East supplies.
  
  Brent crude futures were up 59 cents, or 0.62%, at $96.22 a barrel by 1327 GMT while U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude futures rose 78 cents, or 0.86%, to $91.79. Both contracts were heading for their fourth day of gains and hit six-week highs earlier in the session.
  
  Iran’s health minister said 18 people were killed and 108 wounded in Tuesday night’s U.S. strikes across Iran. The Iranian Red Crescent said four people were killed and 67 wounded at a wedding ceremony near the coast of the Strait of Hormuz.
  
  Three Iranian Army pilots were killed in the U.S. strikes, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported.
  
  The attacks were the most substantial exchange of fire between the U.S. and Iran since July. The war, which began with U.S.-Israeli strikes at the end of February, is in its seventh month.
  
  Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz renewed warnings that Israel would "cripple" Iran’s military and civilian infrastructure, including energy facilities, if Tehran launched attacks against it.
  
  Saxo Bank analyst Ole Hansen said Katz’s comments had helped to push oil prices higher.
  
  FEWER VESSELS TRANSIT STRAIT
  
  Six commodity vessels transited the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday, down from 11 a day earlier and well below the 10-day average of around 13, preliminary shipping data showed on Thursday.
  
  "The oil market remains tight, with oil inventories still declining globally translating into higher prices. Some support might have also come from ongoing tensions in the Middle East," said UBS energy analyst Giovanni Staunovo.
  
  Meanwhile, Iran added ships to the list of vessels it deems non-compliant and subject to fines, confiscation or detention if they try to sail through the strait.
  
  Iraqi vessels are among those Iran has allowed to pass through Hormuz.
  
  Iraq increased its oil exports to around 2.34 million barrels per day in August from about 1.35 million bpd in July, two Iraqi energy officials said on Wednesday, with September exports also expected to increase as heavy discounts and Iranian approvals for Iraqi tankers encouraged buyers.
  
  Higher oil prices and the implications for inflation led to increased bets on a Federal Reserve interest rate hike this month. [MKTS/GLOB]
  
  Source: Reuters/Investing.com
- 2026-09-03
  ‘Pink Corridor’ project to explore safety requirements of nuclear-powered transatlantic box shipping route
  Class society Lloyd’s Register (LR), A.P. Moller – Maersk (Maersk), along with the Ports of Charleston and Port of Felixstowe, have announced a partnership to establish a ‘Pink Corridor’ project that will seek to identify and address the operational,... Read more
- 2026-09-03
  Lloyd’s Register and MARIC unveil tri-fuel-ready tanker concept
  Lloyd’s Register (LR) and the Marine Design and Research Institute of China (MARIC) have secured Approval in Principle (AiP) for a new 114,000 DWT product and crude oil tanker designed to accommodate future conversion to LNG, methanol or ammonia. In... Read more
- 2026-09-03
  TFG Marine installs ISO-certified mass flow meters on two US Gulf bunker barges
  TFG Marine has fitted ISO 22192-certified mass flow meters (MFMs) on two US Gulf bunker barges. According to a statement posted on LinkedIn this week, the Buffalo B414 and Buffalo B304 supply barges received their ISO certification last month. TFG... Read more
- 2026-09-03
  Oiltraining’s Visser joins IBIA as new Training & Technical Advisor
  IBIA – the International Bunker Industry Association has announced the appointment of Ton Visser as its new Training & Technical Advisor. In a statement issued today (3 September), IBIA highlighted Visser’s experience from across the oil, gas, chemical... Read more
- 2026-09-03
  Perpetual Next and PreZero sign waste wood supply deal for biomethanol and biomethane production in the Netherlands
  Netherlands-headquartered Perpetual Next and European environmental services and waste management company PreZero have signed a low-grade waste wood supply deal that will see PreZero supply Perpetual Next’s two under development factories in the Netherlands... Read more
- 2026-09-03
  Everllence inks LTSAs with TT-Line’s LNG-fuelled vessels
  Everllence has announced it has signed Long-Term Service Agreements (LTSAs) with German ferry operator TT-Line for four LNG-fuelled vessels. The agreements, announced at the 2026 SMM maritime trade fair in Hamburg, cover two newbuilding RoPax vessels... Read more
- 2026-09-03
  Oil edges down as investors weigh uncertainty over U.S.-Iran strikes
  Oil prices edged lower on Thursday as investors weighed the uncertainty of renewed military strikes between the U.S. and Iran that risk disrupting supplies from the Middle East. Brent crude futures fell 43 cents, or 0.45%, to $95.2 a barrel at 0029... Read more Oil prices edged lower on Thursday as investors weighed the uncertainty of renewed military strikes between the U.S. and Iran that risk disrupting supplies from the Middle East.
  
  Brent crude futures fell 43 cents, or 0.45%, to $95.2 a barrel at 0029 GMT, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude futures were down 24 cents, or 0.26%, at $90.77.
  
  The latest attacks were the most substantial exchange of fire between the U.S. and Iran since July, with the war now in its seventh month.
  
  Brent and WTI swung between gains of as much as $2 a barrel and losses of $1 a barrel during the previous trading session. The session highs for both benchmarks were the highest since July 24.
  
  Oil prices retreated on tentative signs that the latest flare-up was easing, with no confirmed exchange of fire since around midday on Wednesday, Sydney time, IG analyst Tony Sycamore said in a note.
  
  U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that the renewed U.S. campaign against Iran would not continue for "too long" and that U.S. forces had targeted Iran’s radar and missile systems.
  
  "We took out all of the new equipment that they tried to build along the Strait of Hormuz - some defensive, some offensive ... It was a very heavy attack last night, and we’re prepared to do another one any time we want," Trump said.
  
  "If that easing holds, and it is a big if, it won’t be long before oil moving out of the Strait via dark-ship transits and ship-to-ship transfers returns to the levels we saw at the end of last week," Sycamore said.
  
  Four commodity vessels transited the Strait of Hormuz, below the 10-day average of around 13, preliminary shipping data from Kpler showed on Wednesday.
  
  Iran also added more ships to the list of vessels it deems non-compliant and subject to fines, confiscation or detention if they try to sail through the strait.
  
  The U.S. said on Tuesday that 17 million barrels of oil transited the Strait of Hormuz on Monday, calling it the largest volume of crude to pass through the waterway since the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran began. Source: Reuters/Investing.com
- 2026-09-03
  U.S. SPR Depletion Threatens Further Oil Price Volatility
  Crude oil prices are on their way up again, driven by the latest flare-up of hostilities in the Persian Gulf—but they are also up because U.S. crude inventories are down again, and the Strategic Petroleum Reserve is moving closer to critical levels. The... Read more Crude oil prices are on their way up again, driven by the latest flare-up of hostilities in the Persian Gulf—but they are also up because U.S. crude inventories are down again, and the Strategic Petroleum Reserve is moving closer to critical levels.
  
  The importance of oil inventories came to the fore soon after the United States and Israel launched their war against Iran at the end of February. It was thanks to these inventories that the world avoided a sharp and painful spike in oil prices. The OECD agreed a controlled release of 400 million barrels, and China slashed its oil imports, leaning into its reserve.
  
  The U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve has been essential for the OECD release. Its part in the joint release stood at 172 million barrels. Oil production in the United States has responded to the supply squeeze, but neither as fast or as significantly as some may have hoped as the industry retains its cautious attitude to growth. So, the U.S. federal government has been selling oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. A lot of this oil has gone to Europe, which has struggled to secure its oil supply amid its own sanctions on Russian energy and the war in the Middle East.
  
  Yet the latest release of oil from the SPR has come on top of earlier releases, under the Biden administration, that already reduced the level of available oil in the reserve significantly—and that was never fully replenished, leading to a much lower starting point for this year’s release.
  
  The United States is set to release another 39 million barrels from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve under the joint OECD plan. This would bring down the level of crude in the reserve to 243 million barrels, Reuters reported earlier this week. This will be dangerous: the generally accepted operational minimum for oil in the SPR is between 250 and 300 million barrels, below which the reserve may find it difficult to pump and process oil efficiently.
  
  Some industry observers were voicing concern about the level of crude in the SPR even before the Trump administration came into office. Their argument was that the Biden releases have brought the SPR down to uncomfortably low levels and it needed fast replenishment. That replenishment never came, however, although some crude purchases have been made since the massive release in 2022. And then the new war began, squeezing supply much worse than last time.
  
  The reason for worry about the SPR is purely physical. As explained by Reuters, the oil in the strategic reserve is stored in salt caverns and floats on a layer of water. The more oil is drawn from the caverns, the higher the water level rises, and with it the risk of damage to the walls of the caverns and the pipes and pumps used to suck the crude out. The absolute minimum required for the existence of the reserve is 70 million barrels, according to a petroleum engineering professor from A&M University, but this is irrelevant because the critical level is around 250 million barrels. Below that, the reserve becomes difficult to draw from.
  
  “The core mission of the reserve is to supply the market rapidly during a crisis,” Professor Siddharth Misra told Reuters. “But operating below 250 million barrels pushes the infrastructure into a dangerous zone.”
  
  If the strategic petroleum reserve of the world’s largest oil consumer is nearing critical levels, that would be one less stabilizing factor for oil prices. A shrunken SPR means less available supply in storage to mitigate any future—or continued—supply squeezes. This, in turn, will enhance oil price volatility as China’s oil inventories remain the one substantial supply cushion in case of a new outage. Yet China’s inventories are also not where they were at the start of the year, at over 1 billion barrels. Drawn down inventories make markets nervous.
  
  The U.S. president said this weekend that his administration would refill the SPR with Venezuelan crude, but whether that would be physically possible is unclear. Venezuelan crude is heavy while the crude that can be stored in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve needs to be much lighter because that was the kind of crude the reserve was designed for. One cannot simply swap light for heavy crude with no consequences for the infrastructure. One analyst suggested that Trump could sell Venezuelan heavy to buy lighter crude for the SPR—but that would take years, according to ClearView Energy Partners’ Kevin Book, as quoted by Reuters.
  
  There is also the little detail about the immediate availability of that Venezuelan oil and whether Trump really plans to just take it as a “Gift from Venezuela to the People of the United States” without payment, or whether the U.S. would pay for it. Currently, Venezuela is producing oil at a rate of 1.25 million barrels daily.
  
  While the SPR depletion problem gets resolved, we could reasonably expect higher oil prices, especially if the fighting in the Persian Gulf continues. Source: Oilprice.com
- 2026-09-03
  MABUX: Global bunker indices to shift into a phase of irregular changes on Sep. 03 amid persistent uncertainty over the Strait o
  The MABUX World Bunker Index — a composite benchmark reflecting daily prices for 380 HSFO, VLSFO, and MGO – continued its upward movement on Sep. 02 for the fourth consecutive day: 380 HSFO: USD/MT: 644.28 (+8.07) VLSFO: USD/MT: 804.79 (+12.34) MGO:... Read more The MABUX World Bunker Index — a composite benchmark reflecting daily prices for 380 HSFO, VLSFO, and MGO – continued its upward movement on Sep. 02 for the fourth consecutive day:
  
  380 HSFO: USD/MT: 644.28 (+8.07)
  VLSFO: USD/MT: 804.79 (+12.34)
  MGO: USD/MT: 804.79 (+12.34)
  
  As of Sep. 02, the MABUX Market Differential Index (MDI), which measures the spread between Market Bunker Prices (MBP) and the MABUX Digital Bunker Benchmark (DBP), showed the following trends across the four major global bunkering hubs—Rotterdam, Singapore, Fujairah, and Houston:
  
  • HSFO segment: Rotterdam, Singapore, and Houston remained underpriced, with discounts widening by $17 in Rotterdam and $11 in Singapore, while narrowing by $2 in Houston. Fujairah’s MDI reached 100% MBP/DBP correlation. Rotterdam’s MDI approached the $100 mark, while Houston remained above this threshold.
  
  • VLSFO segment: Fujairah remained the only overpriced port, although its premium narrowed by $17. Rotterdam and Houston stayed underpriced, with discounts widening by $21 and $33, respectively. Singapore’s MDI reached 100% MBP/DBP correlation.
  
  • MGO LS segment: All four ports remained underpriced, with MDI discounts widening further by $22 in Rotterdam, $40 in Singapore, $60 in Fujairah, and $6 in Houston. MDI values remained well above the $100 mark across all four hubs.
  
  MABUX expects Global bunker indices to move into a phase of irregular fluctuations on Sep. 03, with continued uncertainty surrounding the Strait of Hormuz providing underlying support to bunker prices: 380 HSFO: plus-minus 2-6 USD/MT, VLSFO: plus-minus 2-7 USD/MT, MGO LS: plus-minus 5–10 USD/MT.
  Source: MABUX

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