A tailor-made market intelligence platform for Fuel Oil traders

Sparta’s fuel oil blender leverages our proprietary live fuel oil optimiser to deliver clear, actionable insights into global fuel oil blending economics and how to translate them into trading opportunities.

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Unmatched speed and accuracy

Gain real-time access to the most up-to-date physical differentials for a wide range of finished grades and blending components globally, complemented by Sparta’s live fuel oil curves and up to 400 dedicated DPP freight routes from our world-leading data partners.

Unlock global insights

Harness the power of Sparta’s proprietary fuel oil blender to instantly pinpoint clear turning points for significant swing barrels across all major blending hubs.

Actionable market intelligence

Leverage Sparta’s proprietary live fuel oil optimiser for clear, actionable insights into global fuel oil blending economics and how to place or source physical barrels and trade paper spreads with unmatched accuracy and conviction.

Built to meet the needs of the fuel oil market

Fuel oil and blending component prices distilled into actionable insights

Fuel oil markets lack transparency regarding pricing across various blending components. This issue is compounded by the inability to fully comprehend the combined impact of price changes across different blending components, making it challenging to derive reliable and actionable insights into global blending dynamics, a major driver of fuel oil markets. For instance, what is the impact of cheap, heavy, sweet crude on VLSFO blending when there is a simultaneous shortage of mid-sulphur barrels in the pool? Do blending economics suggest that a swing barrel should move eastwards or westwards for greater value? These are the types of insights into blending dynamics that are critical in all trading environments.

The Sparta difference

Make the trade before the market moves

Leverage Sparta’s proprietary live Fuel Oil Optimiser for clear, actionable insights into global fuel oil blending economics and how to place or source physical barrels and trade spreads, cracks, EW, Hi5, and visco with unmatched accuracy and conviction.

Your complete view of the market

Sparta’s Custom Charts provide up to 9 fully customisable charts on one page. Each chart can be tailored by selecting from live, forwards, and seasonal chart types. Custom charts enable traders to visualise Sparta’s ground-breaking Live Curves, futures, swaps, physical, and freight pricing, all integrated into one powerful custom page, delivering an unparalleled view of the energy markets.

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Tools and features to give you the edge

The Sparta for Fuel Oil platform is tailor-made for the fuel oil market, providing features and tools that enable you to trade with greater conviction anytime, anywhere.

Sparta Curves

The most accurate pricing platform available today

Sparta Curves gives you real-time global pricing information no matter where you are, including futures, swaps, the physical market and freight. Contrast and analyse historical seasonal pricing trends to identify new patterns and opportunities. Accessible real-time pricing from anywhere in the world via a web browser, Sparta’s mobile iOS application, or Excel.

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Fuel Oil Blender

Real-time insights into accurate blending economics globally

Leverage Sparta’s proprietary live fuel oil optimiser for clear, actionable insights into global fuel oil blending economics and how to place or source physical barrels and trade spreads, cracks, EW, Hi5, and visco with unmatched accuracy and conviction.

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Sparta Breakeven Blender

The first of its kind, tailor-made for the fuel oil market

Be the first to spot changes in swing barrel dynamics. Sparta’s breakeven solver enables fuel oil traders and blenders to work in reverse to determine the optimal inclusion levels for key blending components, especially high-impact swing barrels. By calculating their workable levels across each blending hub, you gain precise insights to enhance profitability, streamline decision-making, and stay ahead in a volatile market.

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DPP Freight Calculator

Up-to-date reliable freight rates

Instant access to reliable prompt and forward freight rates for 400 global fuel oil routes across vessel classes.

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Speak with our fuel oil expert

Hoa Nguyen

Commodity Owner

hoa.nguyen@spartacommodities.com

Hoa Nguyen is a Commodity Owner at Sparta. Before joining Sparta, Hoa spent 4 years at Trafigura in Singapore and was in charge of Fuel Oil analysis at the company. Prior to that, Hoa worked in emerging markets fixed income at Eaton Vance (Morgan Stanley) in Boston and equity research at Cannell & Spears in New York.

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