Houston Bunker Prices Today
Major US Gulf Coast bunkering hub serving petrochemical and energy trades. Direct access to US refining capacity.
API-Backed Bunker Prices
Bunker benchmarks update on business days, following the upstream assessment schedule (no weekend or holiday assessments). Each timestamp above is the latest API record for that grade — not a page-render time. A value that looks unchanged usually means the market simply held steady; the timestamp confirms it is current. For the marine gas oil benchmark itself, see the latest MGO 0.5%S price.
Modeled fuel demand (Oxford/NERC, 2024, OGL v3)
Modeled baseline demand in tonnes of heavy-fuel-oil equivalent per year, estimated from 2019 AIS vessel movements for trips of 1,000 km or more, with each trip's fuel assigned to its port of origin. It is a model output, not reported bunker sales and not a price. Large bunkering hubs typically sell more fuel than this model assigns them.
- Port in the model
- Houston, U.S.A.
- UN sub-region
- Northern America
- Modeled baseline fuel demand
- 2.09 Mt HFO-equivalent per year (0.95% of the model total)
- Rank by modeled demand
- #12 of 1,363 ports; #1 of 115 in Northern America
- Modeled demand by vessel type
- Tanker 73.8% · Container 11.2% · Dry bulk 9.1% · General cargo 5.3%
Contains data supplied by UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. Source: Verschuur, J. (2024). Maritime fuel demand projections for the year 2050 at 1377 global ports. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/f22a6c34-bd82-4fde-911c-16793f2a6752. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3. OilPriceAPI grants no rights in this data.
Port Advantages
- US Gulf Coast hub
- Proximity to refineries
- Competitive pricing
- Large storage capacity
- Energy sector expertise
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Houston bunker prices: questions traders ask
What is the Houston bunker price today?
Houston delivered bunker assessments as of 2026-10-16: VLSFO $767.5 per metric ton, MGO 0.5%S $1,384.5 per metric ton. The hero card above carries the source timestamp for each grade.
What is the VLSFO–MGO spread in Houston?
MGO 0.5%S is trading $617.0 per metric ton above VLSFO in Houston as of 2026-10-16. The spread is what a vessel pays to burn distillate instead of residual fuel, and it widens when gasoil tightens relative to fuel oil.
How often are Houston bunker prices updated?
Assessments are published on business days and each figure carries its own source timestamp. The page shows the latest record time next to the prices; nothing is extrapolated between assessments.
How do I get Houston bunker prices by API?
Call /v1/prices/marine-fuels/latest?port=USHOU with an API key. The response lists each fuel grade with price, currency, unit and timestamp, and the same endpoint serves the other ports we cover. The API Access tab on this page has the exact request and response shape.
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