MARPOL ANNEX - 1 -Regulations for the Prevention of Pollution by Oil.

• Grounding
• Fire/ explosion
• Collision with fixed or moving object
• Hull Failure
• excessive list
• containment system failure
• submerged/ founded
• Wreck/ stranded
• Hazardous vapour
  
  

Special area as per Marpol annex 1

1. Mediterranean Sea
2. Baltic Sea
3. Black Sea
4. Red Sea
5. "Gulfs" area
6. Gulf of Aden
7. Antarctic area
8. North West European Waters
9. Oman area of the Arabian Sea
10. Southern South African waters
    

Shipboard Oil Pollution Emergency Plan (Sopep)

As per Marpol Annex 1 chapter 5 regulation 37

Every oil tanker of 150 Gross Tonnage and above and every ship other than an oil tanker of 400 gross tonnage and above shall carry Shipboard Oil Pollution Emergency Plan (Sopep).

It should be approved by administration.
Such a plan shall be prepared based on guidelines developed by the Organization.
It should be written in the working language of the ship.

1. Ship’s particulars (General information of ship).
2. Name of owners.
3. Onboard Reporting requirements and procedures. (in case of oil spill is described.)
4. The action plan contains the duty of each crew member at the time of the spill, including emergency muster and actions.
5. It contains the inventory of the Sopep material and Location of Sopep locker.
6. Address of national and local contacts to be notified in the event of spill. Authorities (like Port State control, oil clean up team etc) to contact and reporting requirements in case of oil spill are listed in Sopep.
7. Steps and procedure to contain the discharge of oil into the sea using Sopep equipments.
8. Sopep includes drawing of various fuel lines, along with other oil lines on board vessel with positioning of vents, save all trays etc.
9. General arrangement of ship is also listed in Sopep, which includes location of all the oil tanks with capacity, content etc.
10. Below drawings should be added in Sopep for easy reference for the Master and other ship staff in case of an oil spill:
    General Arrangement Plan
    Tank Plan (Capacity plan)
    Fuel Oil Piping Diagram
    

Port Contact List

List of specific contact details should be prepared for each port visit and with displayed on Bridge and Cargo Control Room. List of specific contact details should contain at least contact details of the following

1. DPA or the operator Emergency contact details.
2. Details the port authorities
   
3. The vessel P&I club
4. the agent.
5. National pollution reporting centre
6. Additional contact details required by the USCG whistle response plan when trading in US waters.
   
   

All oil tankers of 5,000 tonnes deadweight or more shall have prompt access to computerized shore based damage stability and residual structural strength calculation programs.

Oil Record book has 2 parts

Part 1: Machinery Space operations

Every oil tanker of 150 GT and above and every ship of 400 GT and above other than an oil tanker should have ORB part 1.

Part 2 : Cargo / Ballast Operations

Every oil tanker of 150 GT and above shall be provided with ORB part 2.

It should be kept readily available for inspection at all reasonable times and shall be preserved for a period of 3 years after the last entry has been made. Entries shall be made in English, French or Spanish.

Entries to made in Oil Record book part 1

1. Ballasting or cleaning of oil fuel tanks;
2. Discharge of dirty ballast or cleaning water from oil fuel tanks;
3. Collection and disposal of oil residues (sludge and other oil residues);.
4. Discharge overboard or disposal otherwise of bilge water which has accumulated in machinery spaces; and.
5. Bunkering of fuel or bulk lubricating oil.
   
   Entries of Oil Record Book Part 2

1. Loading of oil cargo.
2. Internal transfer of oil cargo during voyage.
3. Unloading of oil cargo.
4. Ballasting of Cargo tanks and dedicated clean Ballast tank.
5. Cleaning of Cargo tanks including crude oil washing.
6. Discharge of Ballast except from segregated Ballast tanks.
7. Discharge of water from slop tank.
8. Closing of all applicable valves or similar devices after slop tank Discharge operation.
   
9. Closing of valves necessary for isolation of  Dedicated clean Ballast tanks from cargo and stripping lines after slop tanks Discharge operations.
   
10. Disposal of residues.
    
11. Accidental Discharge
12. Any Failure of Oil Discharge monitoring and control system.
    
    
    Marpol Annex 1 Discharge Criteria Machinery spaces (Inside Special Area)
    
    Any discharge into sea of oil or oily mixture from ships of 400 gross tonnage and above shall be prohibited except when all the following conditions are satisfied :

1. The ship is proceeding enroute.
2. The oily mixture is processed through an oil filtering equipment meeting the requirements of regulation14.7  of this annex. (Regulation 14.7 requires oil filtering equipment to have an alarm and automatic stopping device when oil contain exceeds 15 PPM.)
3. The oil content of the effluent without dilution should not exceed 15 parts per million.
4. The oily mixture does not originate from cargo pumproom bilges on oil tanker.
5. The oily mixture in case of oil tanker is not mixed with oil cargo Residue.
   
   With respect to  Antarctic area, any discharge into the sea of oil or oily mixture from any ship shall be  prohibited.
   
   Marpol Annex 1 Discharge Criteria Machinery spaces Outside Special Area
   
   As per regulation 15 of marpol annex 1, any discharge into sea of oil or oily mixture from ships of 400 gross tonnage and above shall be prohibited except when all the following conditions are satisfied :

1. The ship is proceeding enroute.
2. The oily mixture is processed through an oil filtering equipment meeting the requirements of regulation 14 of this annex.
3. The oil content of the effluent without dilution should not exceed 15 parts per million.
4. The oily mixture does not originate from cargo pumproom bilges on oil tanker.
5. The oily mixture in case of oil tanker is not mixed with oil cargo Residue.
   
   Marpol Annex 1 Discharge Criteria,  Cargo Spaces (Inside Special Area)
   
   Discharge is Prohibited 
   
   Marpol Annex 1, Discharge Criteria, Cargo Spaces (Outside Special Area)

1. The tanker is not in special area
2. The tanker is more than 50 Nautical miles from the nearest land (from baseline)
3. The tanker is proceeding en route
4. The instantaneous rate of discharge of oil content does not exceed 30 litres per Nautical miles.
   
5. The total quantity of discharge into sea does not exceed for tanker delivered
   
   On or before 31 December 1979 is 1by15000 of the total quantity of the particular Cargo.
   
   After 31 December 1979 is 1by 30000 of the total quantity of the particular Cargo.
   
   
6. Tanker has in operations Oil discharge monitoring control system and a slop tank arrangement.
   
   Defination of Enroute
   
   En route means that a ship meets the following conditions:

1. is underway at sea
2. is on a course or courses (including deviation from the shortest direct route), which, as far as practicable for navigation
3. will cause any discharge to be spread over as great an area of the sea as is reasonable and navigationally practicable