Energy trading houses Gunvor, Vitol
and Trafigura have also chased projects in Bangladesh.
Now the big FSRU came online and we doubt this(the Gunvor deal) will happen.".
Belgian shipping firm Exmar said in May that Gunvor had chartered its small FSRU for 10 years.
When asked about the Gunvor project, Quamruzzaman said its chances were"very slim",
although he said all the LNG projects could be revived at anytime.
As such, Gunvor, which has also invested in some scrubbers,
believes there will still be demand for heavy fuel oil, as scrubber uptake increases through 2020 and 2022.
I think it will be a bit chaotic in the beginning of 2020…(but)
we don't think it's going to be extremely disruptive,” Gunvor CEO Torbjorn Tornqvist told the summit.
Trading desks of oil major BP and merchants Vitol, Gunvor and Trafigura have recorded losses in the tens
of millions of dollars each as a result of the"whipsaw" move when the spread reached more than $11.50 a barrel in June, insiders told Reuters.