Both oil and chemical tankers alike are subject to vetting
inspections. The oil companies operate through the OCIMF SIRE system, and the
chemical tankers through the Chemical Distribution institute (CDI).
Working in the framework of the Oil Companies International
Marine Forum (OCIMF) the industry is discussing how the effectiveness of the
private inspection schemes used by members of OCIMF can be enhanced. Most major
oil companies have their own in-house inspection schemes. The commercial
department will only charter tankers which have been inspected by their
technical department. The inspection procedures and reports are harmonised to a
certain extent and the data maintained in a common OCIMF database (SIRE), which
covers some 4 000 tankers and
annually produces some 10 000 tanker inspection reports. As a
first step, OCIMF has agreed that the private inspection reports stored in the
SIRE database will be made available to PSC inspectors in the framework of the
EQUASIS project, which should help to optimise available PSC resources more
efficiently. (PSC Inspection reports are recorded
on a central database SIRENAC located in St Malo - France, available for search and
daily updating by MOU member countries.)
Inspections on tanker vessels is nearly a constant occurence
nowadays.Virtually all the oil majors have a vetting system in place either
by using their own inspectors or by sub-contracting various acredited
body's to carry out the inspections.
To give an example Statoil ASA,Phillips Petroleum CO, Preem Petroleum AB,
Norsk Hydro ASA and Navion have joined and produced a common
"QASQ questionnaire".
Oil majors as Total, BP, Shell, otherwise known as
SomarElf, Q8 Petroleum, CheveronTexaco and Exxon have their own
inspectorate bodies taking care of ship inspections and vettings. (BP ship-vetting)
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