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1. GroundedHull & Machinery
Coll / Contact
Fire / Explosion
Oil pollution
Eiffel
Tower
(Paris)
Empire
State
(NewYork)
Petronas
Towers
(Kuala
Lumpur)
Taipei
101
(Taipei)
Burj
Dubai
(Dubai)
Knock
Nevis
100m
200m
400m
600m
300m
500m
800m
700m
Displacement - 657,019 tonnesfully
laden (roughly the same as 1650 full jumbo jets)
Draft 24.6 m (81 ft) - couldn’t navigate the
English Channel, the Suez Canal or the
Panama Canal
Source: INTERTANKO, based on incident reports from LMIU and pollution figures from ITOPF
The largest self-propelled, man
made object ever built.
Nevis
KnockIndustrysafetyrecordfortankers
supertanker
ofalltime
Thebiggest
0
210
420
630
No.ofincidents
1,000tsoilsplit
840
1050
0
120
240
360
480
600
1978
1980
1982
1984
1986
1988
1990
1992
1994
1996
1998
2000
2002
2004
2006
2008
2010
2012
2013
Miscellaneous
2013 figures
Last updated: August 2014; Source: BP
Safe
Ships
Factsheet
Shipping
BPShipping
StaffBP Shipping is our designated centre for marine excellence.
Historically, the shipping industry has always taken a 'hurry up
and wait' approach, meaning tankers would travel full steam
ahead to meet a pre-agreed schedule, regardless of fuel was
burned with 'full ahead' steaming, leaving vessels often sitting
idle at port awaiting berthing slots.
Virtual Arrival uses weather analysis and algorithms to
calculate and agree a notional vessel arrival time, so that the
ship will arrive 'just in time'. This radically reduces bunker
fuel consumption and emissions, while easing congestion and
enhancing safety. Waiting time compensation is calculated as
if the vessel had arrived at the originally stipulated time, hence
the name 'Virtual Arrival'. The savings financially or in carbon
credits are calculated and split between the counterparties.
This was a BP initiative that has since been adopted by the
International Maritime Organisation. Virtual Arrival evolves a
hundred years of maritime practice which could potentially
lead to a reduction of many millions of tonnes of greenhouse
gas emissions if it was adopted widely - and has saved BP
$1.5 millionin bunker fuel costs alone.
Of the 10,500 vessels approved by the worldwide tanker industry,
BP Shipping only approves 30%to reach our high standards.
- provides safe, efficient and environmentally responsible marine solutions
- provides assurance to BP against a marine incident or oil spill
- manages an international fleet of 49 vessels
- integrates with FuelsValue Chains,Refining & Marketing and Integrated Supply &Trading
- charters vessels to manage much of IST’s entrepreneurial trading activities
- assesses ships for suitability for BP business
- responsible for implementing the Group’s Marine Defined Practice
* - on BP and time chartered ships
has kept the same core values:
For almost a century,
BP Shipping
Clean
Seas
Commercial
Success
Our fleet
81
= Total cargo
shipped by BP*
million
tonnes of world’s total oil
cargo shipping
39.1%
= Total voyages
by BP*
1,929
= BP shipping
has been
operating
years99
of the world’s
total oil voyages
30.5%
time chartered
vessels > 600
deadweight tonnes
111
1,183BP Maritime
Services Officers
26%74%
Sea staff v Shore staff
(excluding contractors)
207 million
tonnes of cargo
volume in 2013
All the coal
mined in the
world in 1900
All the trash
thrown out in
America each year
The amount of
plastic produced
in a year
At this rate, it would
take roughly 600
years to transport the
whole of Mt Everest
international
vessels
49
Fire fighting equipment
Twenty-two ships
sailing under British
Tanker Company Flag
1918
Non-Persistent Oil
Heavy Persistent Oil
Persistent Oil
LNG / LPG
Movements
Regional 2013 - Tanker
Arrival
Virtual
Valdez
Crude
USWC
Lightering
USG
Lightering
Americas
clean
movements
to S.
America
Trinidad
LNG
USG
Regional
crude
US Fuel
Oil/VGO
USWC
Clean
US
Clean
Europe
Clean
to West
Indies
S. America
clean
Europe
clean
movements
N Europe
crude
Baltic crude
to N Europe
European FO
movements
Med crude
AG LPG
to EH
European
Clean
imports
S. Africa crude
imports
AG
crude
into EH
EH dirty
imports
Asian LPG
imports
EH products
imports
EH crude
movements
EH crude
imports
EH clean
imports
EH crude
movements
WAF crude
to Europe
WAF crude
to US
Euro LNG
to EH
to EH
USWC crude
imports
BP hydrocarbons movements
418 Office Staff in the Europe,
N. America, Asia/Pacific
British Tanker Company formed
to carry products for the
Anglo-Persian Oil Company
1915 Very large crude carriers
(VLCCs) join fleet. Vessel
numbers fall as size increases
1970 Shipping business
celebrates its 90th
anniversary
2005 A further 14 new vessels
ordered as part of fleet
rejuvenation project
2013
Company is
renamed BP
Shipping Limited
1981
Delivery of the British Emperor
– the first oil tanker built to
company specification
1916 With 144 ships under flag, the
company is renamed the BP
Tanker Company Limited
1956 British Resolution and British
Renown play key roles in
opening up Alaska pipeline
1977
Double hulls made
mandatory for all
new tankers
1996 14 new vessels ordered
as fleet rejuvenation
project begins
2012 BP Shipping counts down
to its centenary on April
30, 2015
2014
Voyage dataLifeboats
Collision avoidance Fire protection Ballast tanks Hull structure
Collision protection
Double hull space is extended
beyond cargo spaces both
around wing bunker tanks
and under the cargo pump room
Deck fire fighting provided
with duplicate foam and
pipelines systems