Atlancific’s network of trading platforms and agents enables it to navigate the vagaries of the market dynamics. We have the required expertise in trading crude oil.  We source globally, but specifically in the Gulf of Guinea and other active spots in West Africa, with the assistance of a variety of partners and agents, including our trading team.

Our logistical efficiency, supply chain infrastructure and our deep understanding of the market parameters, ensures that we can respond adequately to the expectations of our customers, mostly producers and refiners, across continents.

Among others, we have direct access to supply repositories of Bonny Light Crude (BLCO), Saudi Light Crude Oil (SLCO), other Light Crude varieties in the Middle East and the Russian Export Blend Crude Oil (REBCO).

Fuel Oil consists 39% of a crude oil barrel and is used for ships bunker, power generation, bitumen for roads and further processing into diesel and gasoline components.  Atlancific can meet demands for low and high sulphur bunker, including heavy fuel for power generation from 0.3% to 3.5% of sulphur content.

Our trading team and originators have extensive relationship with power generators and bunker fuel oil trading partners. In view of our global presence, supply chain management capability and our understanding of the markets, we are able to respond to customer demands, and also serve the fuel centers of the Middle East, South East Asia and Europe, especially Singapore, Rotterdam and Dubai.

Especially manufactured in the Russian federation, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan in line with the Russian system of standards, which is the GOST 10585-99, Mazut M-100 is a heavy, low quality fuel oil, used in generating plants and similar applications.

In the United States and Western Europe, Mazut is blended or broken down, with the end product being diesel. Mazut may be used for heating houses in Eastern Europe and Far Eastern countries that lack the facilities to blend or break it down into more conventional petro-chemicals. This product is typically used for larger boilers in producing steam since the energy value is high. The most important factor when grading this fuel is the sulfur content, which can mostly be affected by the source feedstock.

For shipment purposes, this product is considered a “dirty oil” product, and because viscosity drastically affect whether it is able to be pumped, shipping has unique requirements. Mazut is much like Number 6 Oil (Bunker C), and is part of the products left over after gasoline and lighter components are evaporated from the crude oil.

Grades of Mazut M100

1. “Very Low Sulphur” is Mazut with a sulphur content of 0.5%2.
2. “Low Sulphur” is a Mazut with a sulphur content of 0.5-1.0%
3. “Normal Sulphur” is a Mazut with a sulphur content of 1.0-2.0%
4. “High Sulphur” is a Mazut with a sulphur content of 2.0-3.5%

Very Low Sulfur Mazut is generally made from the lowest sulfur crude feedstocks. It has a very limited volume to be exported, because the number of producers in Russia is limited. However, refineries in India and some Middle Eastern countries are beginning to produce similar grades of Mazut M-100.

Atlancific can supply Mazut M-100 straight from the producers to end-users.

Middle Distillates

Atlancific trades in a full range of middle distillates, comprising gas oil, jet fuel, diesel and kerosene. While diesel is mainly used for transportation and kerosene is heating oil processed for commercial and domestic heating, jet fuel is used to power the engines of commercial and military aircrafts.

Jet fuel, which is erroneously referred to as JP54 by brokers, is commonly traded as Jet A and Jet A-1. Another variety is Jet B, which is often used for cold-weather performance. Light aircrafts use the Avgas (Aviation Gasoline) variety, which could be the Avgas 100 grade or 100LL low lead grade.

While Jet A-1 is equal to JP 8, Jet B is the same as JP-4. Nonetheless, Jet A-1fuel is the specification of standard readily used across the globe. Its Russian equivalent is the T^S-1 standard.

Atlancific can supply Jet fuel to customers globally.

Petroleum diesel, also called petrodiesel and generally called D2 by brokers, is the most common type of diesel fuel. It is produced from the fractional distillation of crude oil between 200 °C (392 °F) and 350 °C (662 °F) at atmospheric pressure, resulting in a mixture of carbon chains that typically contain between 8 and 21 carbon atoms per molecule.  It is liquid fuel used in diesel engines, whose fuel ignition takes place, without any spark, as a result of compression of the inlet air mixture and then injection of fuel

Ultra-low-sulfur diesel (ULSD) is a standard for defining diesel fuel with substantially lowered sulfur contents. As of 2016, almost all of the petroleum-based diesel fuel available in the UK, Europe, and North America is of the ULSD type.

In the UK, diesel fuel for on-road use is commonly abbreviated DERV, standing for diesel-engine road vehicle, which carries a tax premium over equivalent fuel for non-road use.

In Australia, diesel fuel is also known as distillate,  and in Indonesia, it is known as Solar, a trademarked name by the local oil company. In Russia, the GOST variant of D2/Gasoil is the GOST 305-82, with a sulphur content of 0.02 MAX, although terms like Gasoil 0.2 and Gasoil 0.1 or ULSD /50-10 ppm/EN590 are commonly used.

Atlancific can supply Gasoil from refineries in Russia, Middle East, Asia and the U.S.

The terms “asphalt” and “bitumen” are often used interchangeably to mean both natural and manufactured forms of the substance. In the U.S, asphalt or asphalt cement is often used for a refined residue from the distillation process of selected crude oils.

Outside the United States, the product is often called bitumen, which is the preference of geologists worldwide. In comparison to crude oil, bitumen contains more carbon than hydrogen, as well as many more impurities, such as nitrogen, sulphur and heavy metals.

Also known as bitumen, asphalt is a sticky, black, and highly viscous liquid or semi-solid form of petroleum. Its primary usage (70%), mostly as a glue or binder mixed with aggregate particles to create asphalt concrete, is in road construction.

It is also used often for bituminous waterproofing products, including production of roofing felt and for sealing flat roofs.

Atlancific trades conventional bitumen, paving bitumen, viscosity bitumen, PEN grade bitumen, cutback bitumen, fluxed bitumen, industrial bitumen, polymer modified bitumen (PMB), cationic bitumen emulsions, bitumen paints and oxidized bitumen among others.

We supply the following grades: Bitumen Grade 80/100, Bitumen Grade 60/70, Bitumen Grade 85/100, Bitumen Grade 40/50 and Bitumen Grade 50/70 for road construction.

Atlancific’s presence in this market is expanding, and we originate bitumen from the key markets/sources around the world.

Petroleum coke is a carbon-rich solid material that derives from oil refining, and belongs to a type of the group of fuels referred to as cokes. Petcoke is the coke that specifically originates from a final cracking process—a thermo-based chemical engineering process.

The raw coke, which is the green coke, meaning unprocessed, is the fuel grade petroleum coke, due mainly to its higher sulphur content. The further processing of green coke by calcining removes residual volatile hydrocarbons from the coke.

The calcined petroleum coke when further processed, in an anode baking oven, produces the anode coke, mainly used in the aluminum and steel industry.

Atlancific supplies the two grades of petcoke: the fuel grade and the anode grade. We originate petcoke from refineries in Russia, Middle east, Asia and the USA. We supply petcoke of less than 1% sulphur content (ULS) and ranges from 4-5 % (mid-sulphur) to 7 % (high sulphur), including low ash content depending on our customers’ requests.

Naphtha is a flammable liquid hydrocarbon mixture, produced from natural gas condensates, petroleum distillates, and the distillation of coal tar and peat. In different industries and regions naphtha may also be crude oil or refined products such as kerosene.

Naphtha is the first petroleum product produced during the distillation process and subsequently upgraded to make the major components of gasoline. Virgin or straight-run Naphtha is the largest source of Naphtha in most petroleum refineries. The virgin Naphtha is often further distilled into two streams:

1. Virgin light Naphtha with an IFP of about 30 °C and a FBP of about 145 °C contains most (but not all) of the hydrocarbons with 6 or less carbon atoms.
2. Virgin heavy Naphtha with an IFP of about 140 °C and a FBP of about 205 °C contains most (but not all) of the hydrocarbons with more than 6 carbon atoms.

Naphtha is a mixture of many different hydrocarbon compounds. Petroleum refineries around the world are designed differently to process different types of crude oil. Consequently, each refinery produces its kind of Naphtha, with its own unique properties. Mostly, mixtures considered Naphtha are produced from natural gas condensates, petroleum distillates and the distillation of coal tar and peat. However, it is applied differently in different industries and regions as crude oil or refined products such as kerosene.

Atlancific, in collaboration with partners, agents and its in-house team, supplies Naphtha from producer sources in Africa, Russia, Middle East, and India etc., to meet our customers demand at petro-chemical plants in Europe, Far East Asia, and the Americas.

For more inquiries, please email us at petroleum@atlancific.com or phone: + 1416 123 4567.

Petrochemicals, often called petroleum distillates, are chemical products derived from petroleum. The two most common petrochemical classes are olefins (including ethylene and propylene) and aromatics (including benzene, toluene and xylene isomers).

Oil refineries produce olefins and aromatics by fluid catalytic cracking of petroleum fractions. Chemical plants produce olefins by steam cracking of natural gas liquids like ethane and propane. Aromatics are produced by catalytic reforming of naphtha. Olefins and aromatics are the building-blocks for a wide range of materials such as solvents, detergents, and adhesives. Olefins are the basis for polymers and oligomers used in plastics, resins, fibers, elastomers, lubricants, and gels.

The global ethylene and propylene production are estimated at about 115 million tonnes and 70 million tonnes per annum, respectively. In the same token, aromatics production is approximately 70 million tonnes.

1. Olefins, which are the basis for Polymers, includes Ethene, Propene, Butenes and Butadiene. Ethylene and propylene are important sources of industrial chemicals and plastics products. Butadiene is used in making synthetic rubber.
2. Aromatics includes Benzene, Toluene and Xylenes, also known as BTX is primarily derived from Naphtha through petroleum refining process. Benzene is a raw material for dyes and synthetic detergents, while benzene and toluene for isocyanates MDI and TDI are used in making polyurethanes. Manufacturers use xylenes to produce plastics and synthetic fibers.
3. Synthesis gas, a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen, is used to make Ammonia and Methanol. Ammonia is the raw material for fertilizer urea, while methanol is used as a solvent and chemical intermediate.
4. Methane, Ethane, Propane and Butanes  are products of natural gas processing plants.
5. Methanol and Formaldehyde.

Petrochemicals products trading are progressively gaining interests within the Atlancific fold, as a critical component in its oil and gas portfolio. We are aggressively annexing supply partnerships, at the same time we are enhancing our global logistics, to ensure efficient supply chain management and service delivery to our customers.

We originate our products, mostly olefins, polymers, methanol and aromatic petrochemicals, from end-producers in Saudi Arabia, U.S., United Kingdom, the Netherlands, India and other parts of Asia. Similarly, our operations targets industrial centers of Houston, Dubai, Geneva, Istanbul, Shanghai Beijing and Singapore among others.

For more inquiries, please email us at chemical@atlancific.com or phone: +1 647 806 7676.