Petroleum products
Gasoline off the top, bitumen out of the boot, and everything the tower gives up in between — jet fuel, lighting and heating kerosene, diesel, base oil and fuel oil, traded to the specification the destination market actually accepts.
8 grades, in the order the barrel gives them up.
Lightest overhead, heaviest at the bottom. It is not a ranking — it is the physical order these products separate in, and it is why a refinery that wants gasoline still has to sell bitumen.
Gasoline
UnleadedMotor spirit The lightest fuel cut off the tower, and the one whose price everyone knows. Blended from straight-run naphtha, reformate and cracked components to hit an octane target, then finished for volatility — a summer grade and a winter grade are different products wearing the same name. Motor spirit Light distillateMiddle distillateHeavy · lubeResidue 02
Jet Fuel
Aviation turbineJet A-1 A narrow kerosene cut held to the tightest specification of anything on this page. Freeze point, thermal stability and cleanliness are what the specification is really about: fuel that behaves at altitude and leaves nothing behind in a turbine. Handled on a dedicated, segregated chain from refinery to wing. Aviation fuel Light distillateMiddle distillateHeavy · lubeResidue 03
Lighting Kerosene
Illuminating grade Kerosene refined and treated for burning in a wick or mantle rather than in an engine. Low smoke point and low sulphur are what matter, because the flame is in the room: this is still household lighting and cooking fuel across South Asia and East Africa. Illuminating kerosene Light distillateMiddle distillateHeavy · lubeResidue 04
Heating Kerosene
Burning grade The same distillation range as the lighting grade, specified for vaporising and pressure-jet burners instead of a wick — domestic and commercial heating, and process heat where a clean-burning distillate is wanted over gasoil. Heating fuel Light distillateMiddle distillateHeavy · lubeResidue 05
Diesel
Automotive gasoilMarine gasoil The workhorse middle distillate: road haulage, rail, agriculture, marine auxiliaries and standby generation. Cetane governs how it ignites, cold-flow properties govern where it can be used in winter, and sulphur governs which markets will accept it at all. Automotive gasoil Light distillateMiddle distillateHeavy · lubeResidue 06
Base Oil
Solvent neutralSN-80 – SN-1200 Not a finished lubricant but the stock that becomes one — roughly nine parts of every engine oil in the world. The solvent-neutral cuts are graded by viscosity at 100 °C, from the thin SN-80 to the heavy SN-1200, and blenders choose across the range rather than buying a single grade. Turkmenistan Lubricant base stock Light distillateMiddle distillateHeavy · lubeResidue 07
Fuel Oil
ResidualBunker grade What is left after the distillates have been taken off, cut back to a viscosity a burner or a marine engine can handle. Power generation, industrial boilers, cement and shipping — the grades that move the largest tonnage and are specified by viscosity and sulphur rather than by name. Residual fuel Light distillateMiddle distillateHeavy · lubeResidue 08
Bitumen
Penetration gradeViscosity grade The bottom of the barrel, and the reason the barrel is worth refining to the last cut: the binder that holds an asphalt pavement together, plus roofing felt, waterproofing membrane and pipe coating. Classified by penetration or by viscosity depending on the market, and shipped hot, in drums or in bulk. Road binder Light distillateMiddle distillateHeavy · lubeResidueOne feedstock, most of how a country moves and builds.
Our buyers are fuel distributors, marine bunker suppliers, lubricant blenders and road contractors. Each takes a different part of the same barrel, and each is holding us to a different specification for it.
Road, rail, marine and air — the cuts where the specification is written by an engine manufacturer or a regulator rather than by us.
- Gasoline · octane grade
- Diesel · cetane and cold flow
- Jet A-1 · segregated chain
Generation, industrial boilers, domestic heating and the household lighting fuel that still moves in real volume across South Asia and East Africa.
- Fuel oil · viscosity graded
- Heating kerosene · burners
- Lighting kerosene · wick
The two cuts nobody burns: the base stock that becomes finished lubricant, and the binder that becomes road.
- Base oil · SN range
- Bitumen · penetration grade
- Bitumen · roofing & coating
A fuel is the specification. Everything else is logistics.
Two cargoes called diesel can be different products: sulphur limit, cetane, cold-flow point and flash point decide which markets will discharge them and which will reject them at the jetty. The same is true of a bitumen penetration grade and of a fuel oil viscosity band.
So the specification is agreed in writing before anything loads, quality is confirmed by independent inspection at load, and the safety and technical documentation travels with the cargo rather than following it. Handling class governs the rest — heated tanks for bitumen, segregated systems for jet, dedicated tankage for base oil.
Need a refined product at cargo scale?
Tell us the grade, the specification you are held to, the volume and the discharge port — we come back with an indication and a load window.