A Guide for correct entries in the Oil Record Book (Part I - Machinery space operations)

book summary

CONTENTS:
Preface:
-Scope of the Guide
-Objectives of the Guide
-Introduction to operational procedures
-Responsabilities for shore and shipboard personnel
Items to be recorded:
-Introductory notes
-List of items to ber recorded, interpretations and clasifications
Frequently Found Failures:
-IOPP Certificate
-Sludge collection - pumping - incineration
-Bilge water discharge overboard
-Discrepacies between deck log and ORB
-Prior to arrival in port
Detailed Examples for Related Operations:
-Fuel Bunkering
-Bunkering of lubricating oil in bulk
-Engine room bilges discharge overboard through the 15 ppm bilge water separator
-Bilge water from bilge water holding tank discharge overboard through the 15 ppm bilge water separator
-Bilge water collection in bilge water holding tanks
-Delivery of bilge water holding tank to shore facilities
-Oil residue (sludge) collection
-Sludge transfer from purifers sludge tank to main sludge tank
-Sludge disposal to shore facilities
-Used oils transfer to sludge tank
-Bilge separator/oil content meter failure
-Sludge incineration
-Sludge transfer (disposal) from sludge tank to slops tank
-Draining water from one sludge tank into another sludge tank
-Bilge water automatic discharge overboard
-Heating of oil residue (sludge) as a method of reducing its volume by evaporation
Author's References
Frequently Asked Questions and Answers
Appendix: Extracts from MARPOL 73/78 Annex I - Regulations 1, 12, 15, 17 and the Supplement to the IOPP Certificate Forms A and B as amended by Resolution MEPC.187(59) and the IMO publication 'MARPOL, Consolidated Edition 2006?.
Abbreviations