The Port of Fujairah is the Middle East’s premier hub and trade location for liquid bulk cargo products – from crude oil, gasoline and diesel to bunker fuel and lube oils. Its strategic location on the Gulf of Oman, just outside the Strait of Hormuz, attracts Gulf and international NOCs, IOCs and global traders, who value the Port’s state-of-the-art infrastructure, its economies of scale, the wide range of independent liquid bulk storage terminals, and access to other service providers.
Fujairah Oil Tanker Terminals (FOTT) handles the Port’s liquid bulk cargo and provides unparalleled logistical services to all the liquid bulk storage terminals, refinery and oil processing plants hosted by the Fujairah Oil Industry Zone (FOIZ). FOTT facilities are specifically designed and constructed to the highest safety standards, and the terminal offers maximum flexibility, along with efficient and seamless operations.
The key to FOTT’s success in terms of excellent vessel turnaround times and minimal waiting times lies in its innovative digital technologies, large number of piggable pipelines, and two highly sophisticated matrix manifold systems, which provide customers with full connectivity to any of the FOTT berths plus the unique option to transfer products directly between terminals without having to charter a vessel.
FOTT’s global reputation as a safe, efficient and progressive vessel terminal/port, along with the highly skilled and experienced professionals who manage and operate the facility, is what makes FOTT the region’s maritime partner of choice.
FUJAIRAH BUNKER HUB
Fujairah is home to one of the world’s three largest bunkering hubs. Bunker fuels are stored mainly at the liquid bulk storage terminals in FOIZ, loaded at FOTT and supplied by dedicated bunker barges to the Fujairah Offshore Anchorage Area (FOAA).
Fujairah is well positioned to support market demand for fully compliant and compatible marine fuels. The local refinery and oil processing units are set to produce large volumes of LSFO, either as straight run or as blending component, and the liquid bulk storage terminals are equipped with the necessary blending infrastructure to allow traders to blend competitive products. FOTT’s flexible and sophisticated infrastructure ensures clear segregation between the various product flows as well sufficient berth availability for bunker barges.
ADNOC
ADNOC’s 360 km-long crude oil pipeline carries Murban crude from the Habshan oil fields to Fujairah. A strategic connection with direct access to major oil routes, the pipeline has been pumping crude oil since 2012 and has a transmission capacity of 1.8 million barrels a day. ADNOC is building the world’s largest underground oil storage facility in Fujairah, which will add a further 42 million barrels of storage capacity by 2022. The underground storage facility will have capacity to hold three different types of crude oil, enabling it to proactively respond to market needs and commercial opportunities. A planned future connection to the Port of Fujairah will provide ADNOC with further logistic and commercial flexibility.
INFRASTRUCTURE
FOTT OIL BERTHS
FOTT has the flexibility to operate either 9 main berths or 14 wing berths (up to 200,000 dwt) or a combination of both. Infrastructure is in place to add an additional 12 main berths should the business need arise.
VLCC JETTY
Located in deep water at the eastern end of the breakwater, the VLCC Jetty has been in full operation since 2016. The Jetty is built to accommodate tankers ranging from Aframax to very large crude carriers (maximum of 330,000 DWT). Its main purpose is to facilitate the import and export of large cargoes of fuel oil and crude oil. It is connected to Matrix Manifold 2 by two 40-inch product or crude lines. Infrastructure is in place to add a second VLCC jetty.
BUNKER BARGE BERTHS
Berths 3A, 3B, 3 East and 3 West are situated at Oil Terminal 1. These berths are capable of accommodating vessels sized between 10,000 and 20,000 DWT. Each berth has a black line and a white line connected to Matrix Manifold-1, which connects all user pipelines. The four berths are dedicated for MGO and (V)LSFO loading and discharge operations to support the implementation of the IMO 2020 0.5% sulphur cap regulation.
Berth Name
Max Dwt (MT)
Max LOA (m)
Draft (m)
Berth 1
25000
145
15
Berth 2 Main
100,000
250
15
Berth 2 East
20,000
130
15
Berth 2 West
20,000
130
15
Berth 3 Main
100,000
250
15
Berth 3 East
20,000
130
15
Berth 3 West
20,000
130
15
Berth 4 Main
200,000
330
18
Berth 4 North
25,000
140
18
Berth 4 South
25,000
140
18
Berth 5 Main
180,000
300
18
Berth 5 East
25,000
140
18
Berth 5 West
25,000
140
18
Berth 6 Main
180,000
300
18
Berth 6 East
25,000
140
18
Berth 6 West
25,000
140
18
Berth 7 Main
180,000
300
18
Berth 7 East
25,000
140
18
Berth 7 West
25,000
140
18
Berth 8 Main
200,000
330
18
Berth 8 North
50,000
185
18
Berth 8 South
50,000
185
18
Berth 9 Main
200,000
330
18
Berth 9 North
50,000
185
18
Berth 9 South
50,000
185
18
Berth 3A
10,000
120
9
Berth 3B
10,000
120
9
VLCC
330,000
344
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MATRIX MANIFOLDS
The key to FOTT’s success in terms of excellent vessel turnaround times and minimal waiting times lies is the innovated digital technology, large number of piggable pipelines and two highly sophisticated Matrix Manifold Systems.
The Matrix Manifold systems provide customers (storage terminals) with full connectivity to any of the FOTT berths. The storage terminals are required to connect a minimum number of black oil and white oil lines to one of the Manifolds and in return they are getting access to all the main (9) and wing (14) berths via FOTT’s dock lines. This provides for very competitive and flexible logistic solutions.
An additional key feature of the Matrix Manifold system is the unique option of transferring products directly between storage terminals without having to charter a vessel. FOTT will facilitate the product flows between two terminals via its manifolds and interconnectivity lines. This is another huge advance for oil traders, allowing them direct trades within the vast Fujairah storage network and resulting in significant cost savings.
