Sunday 28 October 2018

OIL RECORD BOOK ENTRIES ON OFFSHORE VESSELS







An offshore supply vessel is small ships which are used for the transportation on stores materials equipment or personnel to and from between offshore installations. As considering the size the vessels are small but it serves all types of ships duties such as it carries oil and serves as tanker, it carries passenger and serves duties of passenger ships under special purpose ships also it can carry some sort of noxious substances as cargo .
Oil record book part 1 is for machinery space operations of every ship above 400 gross tonnage and tankers above 150 gross tonnage
Oil record book part 2 is  for cargo and ballast operations  of every oil tanker above 150 gross tonnage 
The offshore supply vessels are permitted to carry  oil as cargo therefore the offshore supply vessels to be keep oil record book part 1 & 2 
 Oil record book should be filled carefully otherwise it will lead to non conformity of vessel and sometimes the company and chief engineer should be fined by administration during port state inspection
The chief engineer is custodian of oil record book and he should be responsible for maintain Oil record book part 1, the chief officer is responsible for oil record book part II
Oil record book entries have to be made with indelible ink
Oil record book should be kept on board minimum three years from the last entry
All operation should be recorded in chronological order as executed onboard the vessel
The dates should be entered in dd-month-yyyy format like 25-june-2018
Do not leave the lines in between the entries
All entries should be signed by officer/officer in charge of concerned operation and each completed page should be signed by master
If a wrong entry has been recorded in the Oil Record Book (ORB), it should immediately be struck through with a single line in such a way that the wrong entry is still legible. The wrong entry should be signed and dated, with the new corrected entry
Tank names should be as per the name designated on IOPP certificate and capacity of tanks also mentioned as per the iopp certificate
The capacity of the ows should be checked from manual / company label from equipment. All entries of pumping should be according to the capacity of ows
Recording of quantities retained in bilge water holding tanks listed under section 3.3 of the IOPP certificate is voluntary and not required by the Convention.
The recording of general maintenance of  OWS remains voluntary and is this is not required to be recorded in the ORB.
Incineration or landing ashore of oily garbage and used filters should be recorded in the Garbage Record Book only.
Fuel oil quantity recorded on oil record book part -l should be metric ton
Fuel oil quantity recorded on oil record book part -lI should be cubic-meter
All sludge and bilge water, other than fuel quantities are recorded in oil record book part -l should be cubic-meter

Use of appropriate entries to be on oil record book 
 As    WHEN FUEL OIL RECEIVED IN DEDICATED CARGO TANKS, ENTRY OF RECEIPT TO BE MADE IN ORB  PART II. CARGO/BALLAST OPERATIONS
IF THE FUEL OIL RECEIVED FOR SHIPS USE ON DEDICATED SHIP’S USE BUNKER TANK, THE ENTRY OF RECEIPT TO BE MADE IN ORB PART I. MACHINERY SPACE OPERATION


Some of common entries of oil record book during operation of offshore supply vessel given as example

OIL RECORD BOOK PART – I

1.    Weekly inventory of oil residue (sludge) tank, listed under 3.1 of iopp certificate
and weekly voluntary declaration of quantity retained on bilge holding tank listed under 3.3 of IOPP certificate
 quantity recorded in cubic meters






2.Entries of oil residue collected by manual operation on sludge tank









13.    Disposal of sludge from sludge tank to shore reception


 





4. Pumping of bilge water from engine-room bilge wells to bilge holding tank, a tank listed under item 3.3 in the Supplement to the IOPP certificate




5. Pumping of bilge water overboard through OWS from bilge holding tank ,  listed in item 3.3 in the Supplement to the IOPP certificate





6. Pumping bilge to shore reception from bilge holding tank, listed in item 3.3 in the Supplement to the IOPP certificate




during bunkering to be noted that the bunker for ship's use is to be entered on ORB PART-1 and bunkering cargo on ship's cargo tank to be entered on ORB PART- II
some charterers are supplied fuel oil total quantity not discriminating ship's use and cargo in that case chief engineer to be loaded maximum fuel as cargo and minimum quantity fuel for voyage on ship's use bunkering tank. in that case shortage of ship's use bunker chief engineer can transfer cargo fuel for ship's use, it is permitted on supply vessel by law, whereas new osv 's it is not possible to transfer fuel oil from ship's use dedicated fuel oil tank

7. Bunkering fuel oil to SHIP'S USE dedicated fuel oil tank
FUEL OIL QUANTITY SHOULD BE METRIC TON ON ORB PART-1
BDN, MSDS should be collected and filed as supporting document
sample should be collected signed and stored

8. Bunkering fuel oil as cargo on ship's dedicated cargo oil tank (entry on ORB PART-II)
FUEL OIL QUANTITY SHOULD BE CUBIC METER ON ORB PART-II


 *BDN & MSDS should be collected from supplier,

during internal transfer corresponding entries should be ORB PART-1 & ORB PART-II

9.Internal transfer from ship's cargo tank to dedicated ship's use fuel oil tank (entry on ORB PART-I)

 BDN number for corresponding supply to be recorded in code I





10.Internal transfer from ship cargo tank to dedicated ship's use fuel oil tank (entry on ORB PART-II)



11. Fuel oil supply to offshore installations  (entry on ORB PART-II)



copy of the corresponding BDN & MSDS should be hand over to the receiver with chief engineer seal and signature

Wednesday 18 July 2018

RIVER SEA VESSEL




RIVER SEA VESSEL

     SECTION 456 OF M.S.ACT 1958 EMPOWERS D.G.SHIPPING TO EXEMPT INDIAN SHIPPING OPERATING ALONG THE INDIAN COAST, WITHIN THE TERRITORIAL LIMIT OF INDIA
RIVER SEA VESSELS ARE DIVIDED IN TO FOUR CATEGORIES
TYPE  I  R.S.V
TYPE  II  R.S.V
TYPE  III  R.S.V
TYPE  IV  R.S.V

TYPE  I R.S.V - SHIP TO SHORE SERVICE
RIVER SEA VESSELS WHICH PLAY SHIP SHORE OPERATION OF INDIAN PORT BEYOND INLAND VESSEL LIMITS IN FAIR WEATHER ONLY. , Eg: COAL LIGHTERAGE, WHICH TAKE PLACE OUTSIDE MUMBAI HARBOUR.
TYPE  II R.S.V- NEARBY PORTS SERVICE
RIVER SEA VESSELS WHICH PLAY BETWEEN NEARBY PORTS IN FAIR WEATHER  AND THE SEA PASSAGE SHOULD COVERED BY A FULLY LOADED VESSEL AT VESSEL'S OPTIMUM SPEED DURING DAY LIGHT HOURS ONLY
TYPE  III  R.S.V - RESTRICTED COASTAL SERVICE
RIVER SEA VESSELS WHICH PLAY BETWEEN INDIAN PORTS WHERE VOYAGE DURATION DOES NOT EXCEED 48 HOURS. VESSELS TO KEEP MAXIMUM PARALLEL DISTANCE OF 12.N.M. FROM NEAREST LAND. GULF OF CAMBAY.  & GULF OF KUTCH WHERE MAXIMUM DISTANCE OF 30.N.M. FROM SHORE IS ALLOWED.
WITHIN THE TERRITORIAL WATERS OF INDIA 

TYPE  IV  R.S.V - UNRESTRICTED COASTAL SERVICE
RIVER SEA VESSELS WHICH PLAY BETWEEN INDIAN PORTS IN ALL WEATHER CONDITIONS, 12. N.M. PARALLEL DISTANCE FROM NEAREST LAND. GULF OF CAMBAY.  & GULF OF KUTCH WHERE MAXIMUM DISTANCE OF 30.N.M. FROM SHORE IS ALLOWED. WITHIN THE TERRITORIAL WATERS OF INDIA
REGISTRATION
TYPE I  & TYPE II VESSELS MAY BE REGISTERED UNDER INLAND VESSEL ACT AT OWNERS OPTION
TYPE III & TYPE IV VESSELS TO BE REGISTERED UNDER M.S.ACT

 THE RULES FOR INDIAN RIVER SEA VESSELS ARE APPLICABLE TO SHIPS WHICH ARE:

ENGAGED EXCLUSIVELY ON INDIAN COASTAL VOYAGES.

1. LESS THAN 6000 GT / 8000.K.W. PROPULSION POWER  IN THE CASE OF CARGO SHIPS;
2. LESS THAN 10000 GT / 10000.K.W PROPULSION POWER  IN THE CASE OF DREDGERS;
3. LESS THAN 3000 GT/ 3000 K.W. PROPULSION POWER  IN THE CASE OF RSV TANKERS;*
4. LESS THAN THAN 400 PASSENGERS ONBOARD IN THE CASE OF R.S.PASSENGER VESSEL*

* RSV TANKERS ARE VESSELS WHICH CARRY PETROLEUM OILS OF FLASH POINT EXCEEDING 60°C AND VEGETABLE OILS SPECIFIED IN THE DGS ORDER.

*INDIAN RIVER SEA PASSENGER VESSELS APPLIES UNDER CATEGORY OF RSPV TYPE III & IV, ONLY TO PASSENGER VESSELS THAT ARE ENGAGED EXCLUSIVELY IN OPERATIONS WITHIN INDIAN TERRITORIAL WATERS,AND WHICH CARRY LESS THAN 400 PASSENGERS ONBOARD.


RIVER SEA VESSEL RULES DOES NOT APPLY TO
 CARRYING BULK CHEMICALS OR GAS IN ANY FORM (PACKAGED OR OTHERWISE);
 FISHING VESSELS;
 MILITARY AND GOVERNMENT SHIPS NOT USED FOR COMMERCIAL PURPOSES.