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NWE FOB Fuel Oil 3.5% Price Today — FOB NWE

The assessment represents the estimated prevailing market level for the defined basis and is not an executable quotation.

Latest NWE FOB Fuel Oil 3.5% Price

CommodityScope Assessment
595.50 USD/mt
Change
+14.25(+2.5%)
vs previous daily assessment (20 Oct 2026)
Assessment date
21 October 2026
Daily assessment · FOB NWE
Assessment Range
593.25 – 597.75 USD/mt
Assessment confidence: low

The assessment range is an uncertainty interval around the CommodityScope midpoint and does not represent a quoted bid/offer spread or daily trading high/low. Range methodology

Basis
FOB NWE
Unit
USD/mt
Frequency
Daily
CS Series
CS-NWE-FO35-FOB

NWE FOB Fuel Oil 3.5% Price Chart

USD/mt · Calendar gaps are not interpolated.

Price Changes and Historical Range

Computed statistics are CommodityScope calculations from the series history.

vs last completed month
+64.30(+12.1%)
vs September 2026 average (22 obs.)
Available History Range
326.00 – 649.00
26 Jan 2026 – 21 Oct 2026, 143 obs.

Monthly NWE FOB Fuel Oil 3.5% Prices

Average, minimum and maximum of assessment midpoints in each calendar month. These are not the daily assessment range. Incomplete latest months are marked month to date.

MonthAverage midMin midMax midObservations
October 2026Month to date570.53530.75595.5015
September 2026531.20494.25576.7522
August 2026468.23419.75529.7520
July 2026436.46379.75498.0014
June 2026471.62381.50553.0013
May 2026597.71523.75649.0017
April 2026564.94524.75621.7513
March 2026583.22487.50639.7516
February 2026349.14332.00377.2511
January 2026341.25326.00356.502

Recent Daily Assessments

Latest CommodityScope daily assessments for the defined market basis. Low and high are the CommodityScope assessment range around each midpoint, not a bid/offer spread. Dates without an available assessment are omitted.

DateLowHighMidΔ vs previous
2026-10-21593.25597.75595.50+14.25
2026-10-20579.00583.50581.25-10.50
2026-10-19589.50594.00591.75+6.25
2026-10-16583.25587.75585.50+0.75
2026-10-15582.50589.00584.75-3.50
2026-10-14582.75590.75588.25+4.50
2026-10-13581.25586.25583.75-1.25
2026-10-12578.25587.75585.00+5.50
2026-10-09576.75583.75579.50-3.50
2026-10-08580.00586.00583.00+24.50

What This FOB NWE Price Represents

Daily FOB Northwest Europe assessment of 3.5% sulphur fuel oil cargoes in USD/mt.

Compare With

Each comparison states why the series are related and whether the latest values can be subtracted directly (same unit, currency and assessment date). Where they cannot, the values are shown side by side without a difference.

SeriesWhy compareLatestDifference (this − other)
Fuel Oil 3.5% — Northwest Europe
CIF NWE · USD/mt · daily
Same 3.5% fuel oil in the same region on CIF NWE instead of FOB NWE terms; the gap contains freight/insurance or barge-vs-cargo logistics, not quality.
  • Different delivery terms (FOB vs CIF); the gap may reflect freight, insurance, location basis, parcel and timing differences and is not a trading margin.
622.25
21 Oct 2026
not directly comparable
Fuel Oil 3.5% — Rotterdam
FOB Rotterdam · USD/mt · daily
3.5% fuel oil barges FOB Rotterdam: barge parcel at the hub.623.25
21 Oct 2026
-27.75
Fuel Oil 1.0% — NWE FOB
FOB NWE · USD/mt · daily
Different grade or specification in the same market: 1.0% vs 3.5% sulphur.
  • Different products; values are shown side by side and are not subtracted.
632.00
21 Oct 2026
not directly comparable

CommodityScope Assessment Basis

This is the CommodityScope series definition for the published midpoint and assessment range. Characteristics that are not part of this basis are not inferred.

Product
Fuel Oil 3.5%
Product quality
Product as labelled by the series name and location basis. CommodityScope does not infer a fuller chemical or contractual specification.
Location basis
FOB NWE
Parcel basis
Typical physical cargo as transacted on the stated location basis. CommodityScope does not fix a standard parcel tonnage.
Delivery / loading period
Not fixed in the published series basis.
Assessment window
CommodityScope daily assessment dated as of the published assessment date.
Currency / unit
USD/mt
Normalization
Inputs used for the midpoint and the assessment range are considered only after they can be expressed on this series basis and unit. Cross-unit values are not converted on the public site and are not mixed into this series.

Specification · stated in the assessment basis

  • Maximum 3.5% sulphur, from the series name.

Basis: FOB NWE

  • FOB (free on board): the price covers the product loaded on the vessel at the named origin; sea freight and insurance to the destination are excluded, so FOB values from different loading areas are not delivered-cost equivalents.
  • Northwest Europe (NWE) covers the Channel and North Sea coast from Le Havre to Hamburg; cargo values here are seagoing parcels, not barges.

Unit: USD/mt

  • USD/bbl values (Singapore, Arab Gulf, Fujairah) and USD/mt values (Europe, Japan naphtha) cannot be compared without a product-specific density conversion; the site does not convert them.
  • CommodityScope publishes a midpoint and an assessment range around that midpoint; the range is an uncertainty interval, not a bid/offer spread. Charts and monthly statistics use the midpoint only.
How to use this series, and what it is not for

How to use this series

  • Follow HSFO values used by scrubber-fitted vessels and power/refinery feedstock buyers; the East–West spread compares Singapore with Rotterdam.

What it is not suitable for

  • Compliant bunker pricing for non-scrubber ships (that is the 0.5% series).

Product and market references

Assessment, assessment range and computed statistics: CommodityScope. The assessment range is an uncertainty interval around the midpoint, not a bid/offer spread. See the Oil Products & Physical Crude Methodology v1.0 for assessment basis, calculation principles and data policy.