Singapore has opened purposes for brand spanking new licenses to produce liquefied pure gasoline (LNG) as a marine gas on the Port of Singapore.
“This name follows the current updates to the Singapore LNG bunkering licensing framework and requirements, which now embrace the supply of sea-based LNG reloading and the availability of liquefied bio-methane and e-methane within the Port of Singapore”, the Southeast Asian city-state’s Maritime and Port Authority (MPA) stated in an internet assertion.
Each current license holders and potential debutants can apply. Purposes have to be submitted on-line by March 27, MPA stated.
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“Licensees are required to implement end-to-end LNG bunkering provide preparations, which embrace securing LNG provide, demand planning, cargo transfers operations, storage and protected dealing with of LNG, in addition to the sale, provide and supply of LNG gas to vessels in Singapore”, it stated.
Licensees should personal not less than one refueling vessel registered with Singapore and compliant to the MPA’s port restrict all through the license interval, MPA stated.
Candidates should element technical readiness to produce LNG with decrease lifecycle planet-warming emissions, corresponding to liquefied bio-methane and e-methane. “The proposal also needs to cowl meant provide pathways and sourcing preparations”, MPA added.
Candidates should additionally define measures to mitigate and monitor methane emissions from their bunkering vessels. Such measures should embrace vessel design options, operational practices and monitoring and reporting strategies, MPA stated.
“To additional improve Singapore’s LNG bunkering ecosystem, MPA and Enterprise Singapore, via the Singapore Requirements Council, will improve the present Technical Reference for LNG Bunkering (TR56) to a Singapore Customary (SS) in Q2 2026”, it added. “The brand new SS will replace and strengthen the necessities below TR56, aligning them with Singapore’s broader bunkering requirements and serving as a key reference for LNG bunkering license candidates”.
Final yr MPA acquired over a dozen proposals below an invite for expressions of curiosity.
“Eight of the submissions included bio-methane and e-methane options”, MPA stated in a press launch April 10, 2025. “These fuels can provide decrease lifecycle greenhouse gasoline emissions and assist the wants of worldwide transport for added choices for vessel operators on the vitality transition pathway.
“MPA will work with shortlisted corporations to hold out sea-based LNG reloading trials by the second half of 2025.
“It should additionally develop plans to advertise the use [of] bio- and e-methane as marine fuels in Singapore.
“The trials will assess scalability, technical feasibility, security, operational readiness and digital connectivity, in addition to measures to deal with methane slip”.
On November 24, 2025 MPA introduced three licensees for the availability of methanol as a marine gas on the Port of Singapore. Out of 13 candidates, chosen had been World Vitality Buying and selling Pte Ltd, Golden Island Pte Ltd and PetroChina Worldwide (Singapore) Pte Ltd. The licenses are legitimate via 2030. “The five-year interval helps the early growth of methanol bunkering by giving licensees enough scope to construct capabilities, strengthen provide chains and anchor preliminary investments because the market develops”, MPA stated.
Marine gas gross sales in Singapore hit a report 56.77 million metric tons in 2025, up 3.4 % from 2024, MPA reported on its web site Tuesday. The report famous of “continued development in using various marine fuels, which elevated to 1.95 million tonnes in 2025 in comparison with 1.35 million tonnes in 2024”.
In keeping with a listing printed on-line this week by MPA, the highest 10 transport gas suppliers in Singapore final yr had been, in alphabetical order: BP Singapore Pte Ltd, Bunker Home Petroleum Pte Ltd, Chevron Singapore Pte Ltd, Eng Hua Co (Pte) Ltd, Equatorial Marine Gas Administration Companies Pte Ltd, World Vitality Buying and selling Pte Ltd, PetroChina Worldwide, Sinopec Gas Oil (Singapore) Ptd Ltd, TFG Marine Pte Ltd and Vitol Bunkers (S) Pte Ltd.
Singapore’s prime 5 bunker biofuel suppliers in 2025 had been BP Singapore, Chevron Singapore, Maersk Oil Buying and selling Singapore Pte Ltd, SK Vitality Worldwide Pte Ltd and Vitol Bunker, in line with MPA’s listing.
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