The Gulf Coast Difference
Smart Coriolis Mass Flowmeters with FuelTrax
Measuring fuel directly ensures greater accuracy, accountability, and reliability.
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Why Coriolis Meters?
Gulf Coast Fuel Supply has chosen to standardize on Coriolis mass flowmeters as they are a proven, reliable metering technology that give far greater accuracy than traditional methods. We firmly believe that accurate measurements benefit all parties.
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Accurate Measurements
Coriolis smart meters differentiate air, water, temperature, density and particulates for enhance measurements. Mass flowmeters are much more accurate that volumetric meters which provide results with a +/- 0.15% accuracy.
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Real Time Data
Coriolis mass flowmeters allow for transparent fuel monitoring just as if you had a fuel auditor onboard the vessel. We give every customer a detailed transcript which shows the mass, density, and temperature of the fuel transfer.
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Calibrated and Tamper Proof
Unlike volumetric meters, Coriolis meters require little to no physical maintenance. All maintenance and calibration verification can be performed remotely as required.
The meters are constantly monitored by the system and if powered off or disconnected in an attempt to circumvent, FuelTrax is alerted right away.
Fuel Sample Shuttle Service
We understand the issues with your business. One of the drawbacks to bunkering fuel offshore is getting your fuel samples back to your fuel testing lab to obtain results prior to burning the fuel onboard. In most cases, vessels can have their samples held up for days or weeks depending on their voyage schedules before they reach the lab.
In order to avoid this issue and to provide our customers with a higher level of service, we have partnered with
T&T Offshore to provide a dedicated launch option to pick up your samples the same day and coordinate delivery to your local agents to pass along to the fuel testing lab of your choice. Contact our sales office for further details.
A Higher Standard of Fuel Testing
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More than just ISO 8217
We believe that the current levels of industry testing for VLSFO fuel quality is lacking in detail and needs to be improved overall.
For every cargo loaded, we go above the industry standards to provide our customers with better details about your fuel purchase in order to avoid any quality issues onboard.
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Gas Chromatograph / Mass Spectrometer testing
All of our VLSFO cargoes are tested by Gas Chromatograph / Mass Spectroscopy test for quantification to identify in advance any potential issues on the molecular level.
The latest lab results are always available to our customers in advance of purchase.
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Wax Appearance Temperature
VLSFO can be on specification as per ISO 8217 yet still cause sludging and filter clogging once onboard. The reason is that ISO 8217 doesn't test for the Wax Appearance Temperature ( WAT ).
The Wax Appearance Temperature (WATR) indicates the temperature value at which wax crystals begin to form when the fuel is cooled. Fuel should always be maintained above the reported WAT value. We provide this data with every VLSFO purchase to our clients.
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FTIR Spectroscopy Testing
Gulf Coast Fuel Supply also performs a Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) scan on all of our MGO cargoes as well. Specifically this test is used for identifying organic molecules present in the marine fuels such as alcohols, esters and acids.
We take this extra step to ensure that only the best quality products are sold to our valued customers.