BunkerExperience Programme
Monday 2 - Thursday 5 October 2023
Standard Price: £2,995
- Have you ever had the opportunity to attend an actual physical bunkering and/or perform tests on viscosity, density, flashpoint, sulphur, and water yourself?
- Learn how fuel oil makes an engine run and what is needed for onboard pre-treatment?
- Learn and experience how to measure a bunker barge?
- Take a sample and experience the "sulphurous" flavour of heavy fuel yourself?
- Perform tests in a real laboratory yourself?
| MONDAY 2 OCTOBER | ||
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| 19:00 | Welcome Drinks and Dinner at the Hotel | |
| TUESDAY 3 OCTOBER - BARGE DAY | ||
| 08:00 | Breakfast | |
| 08:45 | Welcome/ Introductions/ Round Robin Llewellyn Bankes-Hughes, Petrospot |
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Bunkering - why are we here? |
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| 09:30 |
Get to know all about Mass Flow Meters (MFM) |
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| 10:00 | Networking Coffee Break | |
| 10:20 | Learning definitions |
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| 11:30 | The Calculations |
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| 12:00 | Networking Lunch Break | |
| 13:00 | Visit to a VT bunker barge | Measuring and sampling of fuel oil on board of a VT bunker barge yourself guided by marine surveyors of Bureau Veritas. |
| 19:00 | Dinner at the hotel | |
| WEDNESDAY 4 OCTOBER - LAB DAY | ||
| 08:00 | Breakfast | |
| 08:45 | The refinery process from crude oil to fuel oil |
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| 12:00 | Networking Lunch Break | |
| 13:00 | Visit to a Saybolt laboratory |
Performing laboratory tests on fuel oil samples yourself: |
| 19:00 | Oriental Dinner at the China Garden Restaurant | |
| THURSDAY 5 OCTOBER - PORT DAY | ||
| 08:00 | Breakfast | |
| 08:45 |
Discussing laboratory work |
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| 09:00 |
The Bunker Buying Process |
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| 10:00 | Networking Coffee Break | |
| 10:30 | A Shipping Overview | |
| 12:00 | Boarding "Ome Aad's Borrelboot" and lunch onboard | |
| "Tour de Port" - tour of the port, ships and facilities | ||
| 15:00 | Back at the hotel for the Diploma Ceremony | |
| 15:30 | End of course | |
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