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Cleaner Shipping Rules To Hit Fuel Oil Market [1]

New regulations that will force the shipping industry to switch to cleaner fuel could snuff out nearly a quarter of European demand for fuel oil by 2015.

The package of measures will add to the woes of the dirtiest and least profitable oil product: sludgy, bottom of the barrel fuel oil left behind from refining more profitable motor fuels.

Publication Date: 
27/07/2009
Planet Ark (Australia) [2]
Tags:
Shipping [3], Energy [4], Natural Gas [5], Asia [6], Europe [7], United Kingdom (UK) [8]
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