LPG (Propane / Butane)

Pressurised & refrigerated propane, butane and mixed LPG

LPG is sold as propane, butane or a mix, and the mix is the specification most buyers actually contract on: a domestic cooking market in a hot climate wants a butane-rich blend (typically 30:70 or 40:60 propane to butane) that vaporises without excess pressure in a cylinder, while a cold climate, autogas or industrial buyer wants propane-rich or pure propane. Behind the blend sit vapour pressure at 40 °C, the C2 (ethane) and C5+ (pentane) limits, total sulphur at about 50 ppm maximum, a copper corrosion test, residue, water at nil, and an odorant added at the terminal, all to ISO 9162, GPA 2140 or the national standard. The cargo comes in two physical forms that do not mix: pressurised, in small ships of 1,000–5,000 MT that discharge into pressurised spheres and bullets, and refrigerated, in vessels from 20,000 MT to VLGC size that need a refrigerated import terminal. Which form a buyer can receive decides everything else.

Buy LPG as a cargo when you are a cylinder filler or marketer with pressurised storage, an importer with a refrigerated terminal, or a state buyer running a tender; and buy it in the parcel size your jetty and tanks can take, because freight per tonne on a 2,000 MT pressurised coaster is several times that on a refrigerated parcel. The markets on this desk are West and East African cylinder fillers, Indian Ocean islands and South Asian importers, supplied from Omani, Red Sea, Algerian, West African and US producers and priced against Saudi Aramco contract prices or the published Middle East and Mediterranean assessments. We work one way: a named terminal or producer, a stated blend, quantity and laycan, independent inspection at load, and payment against documents under a documentary letter of credit. CBIL brokers pressurised and refrigerated LPG on FOB, CFR and CIF terms.

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Excluded origins are not offered, including product re-exported, blended or re-processed through a third country. Every lot moves with a certificate of origin naming the producing plant, mine or grower country, and nothing is quoted before the seller and loading point are known.