Oil King Wrote:
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> Don B Wrote:
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> > Does anyone know what type on bunker oil the UP
> > 4014 will be using? I though the UP 844 uses
> > bunker type 4 then some other may use another
> type
> > of bunker oil.
>
>
> UP has for years used #5 fuel oil, because Bunker
> C is
> almost impossible to get any more unless you are
> near a
> major seaport that offers bunkering services to
> large
> ships.


Nope. The UP Steam Crew used re-refined waste oil from Sereal(sp) Petroleum, out of Council Bluffs, Iowa. The change from Sinclair "heavy oil" to the re-refined waste oil was made sometime in the mid 1990s.


> It's hard to get because modern refining practices
> leave
> far less bunker after other things are refined out
> of crude.
>
> New International clean air regs for ocean-going
> ships are
> going to cause the phase-out of bunker oil on
> large ships,
> too.
>
> #4 is even harder to find since it has so few
> uses, and isn't
> much better than diesel fuel.
>
> And also because it tends to violate clean air
> regs.