HCOTEG212250 - Tables: Table I – Mineral oil products and their markers


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Oil ProductMarked at …Used for …Markers added

( MGO) also known as ‘Red Diesel’

Straight from the refinery (duty suspended warehouse), or at a Remote Marking Point (RMP)

Agricultural vehicles

Vehicles used off-road

Generators

Excepted vehicles listed in schedule 1 of HODA

Heating Fuel

Marine Engines

C1 Solvent Red 24

plus Quinazerin

plus Euro-marker

Kerosene

Straight from the refinery (duty suspended warehouse) or because it is unmarked AVTUR that has become contaminated or ‘Off-specification’. This is either marked at the RMP or on collection by a remote marker.

Waste AVTUR for use as light furnace fuel.

Primarily this is Domestic Heating Oil (Paraffin)

Euro-marker plus

Coumerin

( No Dye is added to MKO)

Marine Diesel

Straight from the refinery or because it was previously unmarked fuel that is being re-landed or at either a RMP

Ships and boats, inboard and outboard engines, hovercraft.

Whilst there is no legal requirement for Marine Diesel to be marked, it is our policy to encourage marking.