"People are increasingly taking more low sulfur bunker volumes and the market is generally expecting more demand," a trader said.

"We are shipping some product out of Fujairah into Singapore in preparation of IMO 2020," Wood, MD Uniper Energy said.

"There is still demand for delivered [380 CST bunkers] even as more people are transitioning towards a 0.5% [marine fuel] market," a trader said.

"There were no serious incidents like explosions or flash flood damages to refinery units," a Japanese refiner said.

Low sulfur IMO 2020 compliant fuels are now available at 14 out of the 22 refineries in Japan.

The oil leakage has stopped and "reached the least," state news agency IRNA quoted reports received from NITC.