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Overview
Nanhai Light crude is produced in the South China Sea and is loaded from a FSU (Floating Storage Unit) near Hong Kong. The cargo sizes range from 300 to 650 thousand barrels with a maximum ship size up to 110,000 DWT. Typically; the cargoes are sold with pricing based off of the APPI (Asian Petroleum Price Index) Tapis quotes. The production rate is approximately 100 thousand barrels per day.
Whole Crude Properties *
| Gravity, API° | 39.7 | 40.1 |
| Gravity SG | 0.8265 | 0.8246 |
| Sulfur, wt% | 0.06 | 0.06 |
| Total Nitrogen, ppm | | 630 |
| Hydrogen, wt% | | |
| Acid Number, mg KOH/g | 0.08 | |
| Pour Point, °F / °C | 90 / 32 | 90 / 32 |
| Charact. Factor (K-FACTOR) | | 12.4 |
| Viscosity, cSt at 40°C (104°F) | 6.50 | |
| Viscosity, cSt at 50°C (122°F) | 5.00 | |
| Vanadium, ppm | | 0.41 |
| Nickel, ppm | | 2.1 |
| MCR, wt% | | 1.98 |
| Ramsbottom Carbon, wt% | | 1.88 |
| Asphaltenes, (H.C7) wt% | | 1.22 |
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