The Problem
Client vessel has 70,000 litres of marine fuel onboard that required defueling prior to entering dry dock for scheduled maintenance.
The client stipulated they wanted to save as much of the bulk fuel as possible without looking to dispose of or store offsite.
Our Solution
The Mitchell & Webber uplift team was sent to the vessel to begin fuelling works. Site safety and spill protection equipment was set up prior undertaking the defueling works.
Our fleet of petroleum road tankers was positioned at the quay side and our specialist loading skid was set up.
This loading skid can safely connect onto any petroleum road tanker in the UK, taking advantage of the IOG standard fitting of chose which is the API coupling.
Our system has an integrated mobile earthing & probe system which is feature that is on all PETREG tankers to prevent the build up of static and overfills.
As an added level of protection there is a built in fuel meter that gets set to the fill point of the each individual tankers compartment, this was we know how much fuel is being loaded and that we don’t over over the tankers max fill point.
The team set up the composite fuel hoses on to the vessels connection point and made the final connection to the loading skid.
The uplift commenced by loading 1 road tanker at a time then moving onto the next tanker when the first was full.
The full tankers then transported the fuel under ADR back to the clients own fuel tanks, preventing any fuel from going to waste to having to pay excess for storage fees.
The Outcome
The vessel was successfully defueled with the client having 70,000 litres of fuel returned back to their own depot.
No waste disposal, no third-party storage fees.