Training in Advanced Oil Tanker Cargo Operations

About this course

This course provides specialist training for senior officers and any person with immediate responsibility for loading, discharging, care in transit or handling of bulk oil cargoes. 

The course is also for tanker terminal and ship management personnel, who will build on previous experience and gain a detailed appreciation of the safety aspects involved in the handling and carriage of oil cargoes.  

The course takes full account of Chapter V Regulation V/1-1, Chapter V Section A-V/1-1.2 and Table A-V/1-1-2 of the 2010 STCW Code and complies with the Merchant Navy Training Board (MNTB) requirements as satisfying part of the prerequisites for issue of a tanker endorsement by the UK Maritime & Coastguard Agency (MCA). 

What you'll learn

Course content includes: 

• Certification and documentation 
• Physics and chemistry 
• Sources of ignition 
• Electrical equipment 
• Static electricity 
• Cargo calculations 
• Ship to shore liaison 
• Cargo operations 
• Crude oil washing 
• Tank washing 
• Enclosed space entry 
• Gas detection instrumentation 
• Health and toxicity 
• Inert gas and Nitrogen systems 
• Inert gas operations