Read fuel oil markets earlier. Validate arb and blend economics as they change. Trade with context and conviction.
Live fuel oil economics
Real-time access to prompt and forward fuel oil arbitrage economics, built from live finished grade pricing, component diffs, and DPP freight.
Trade the dislocation
Live fuel oil arbs update across every major hub, so VLSFO and HSFO dislocations stay visible while they matter.
Conviction without waiting
Clean, standardised data keeps prices, curves, arbs, blend values, and DPP freight aligned, so decisions stay consistent as conditions change.
Built by fuel oil traders, for fuel oil traders
Connect physical fuel oil pricing, live arbitrage economics, blending math, and DPP freight into one forward-looking view. Understand how regional dislocations form across finished grades and the components beneath them, and what that means for flows, spreads, and decisions across VLSFO and HSFO.
The Sparta difference
Read fuel oil pricing with the physical drivers attached. See arbs, components, blend economics, and freight update live, so flows, spreads, and decisions stay grounded as assumptions change.
125 finished grade arbs across VLSFO and HSFO. 250 component arbs covering every blending component. Landed value on every arb, full margin economics on the 125 finished grades. Cleaner reads, sharper calls, and trades made before the move shows up.
See fuel oil structure as it forms
Track regional fuel oil pricing across Singapore, ARA, Fujairah, MED, the Americas and beyond. Live spot assessments and forward curves sit side by side, keeping structure, spreads, and blend economics aligned as the market moves.
Live blending economics, globally
Place physical barrels and source feedstock using a non-linear blending model. See how component prices and grade specifications shape prompt and forward blend values across every major hub. Trade spreads, cracks, EW, Hi5, and visco with the math behind every decision.
Work the blend in reverse
Solve for the optimal inclusion level of every swing barrel across every blending hub. Spot the turn in swing barrel dynamics before it shows up in the market.
Arbitrage built on real delivered economics
375 live fuel oil arbs in one dashboard. 125 finished grade arbs across VLSFO and HSFO with full margin economics, and 250 component arbs covering blending components at landed value. Filter by low and high sulphur and type of stream, with historical depth, anchored in pricing data nobody else publishes.
Reliable DPP freight rates, prompt and forward
Instant access to prompt and forward DPP freight rates across 400 global fuel oil routes and vessel classes, so delivered fuel oil economics stay aligned as freight moves.
Live FOB differentials, globally
Live FOB diffs for every fuel oil finished grade and blending component, worldwide. The pricing backbone the rest of the platform sits on.
Fuel oil arbs in your stack
Historical and live fuel oil arbs accessible through the Sparta API. Backtest spread models on finished-grade margins, feed quant strategies with component landed value and plug Sparta pricing into your own workflows.
Hoa Nguyen
Commodity Owner
hoa.nguyen@spartacommodities.comHoa 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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