ARAMCO - Examination Updated (Recovered)
ARAMCO - Examination Updated (Recovered)
ARAMCO - Examination Updated (Recovered)
As most of you will be aware, “ÁRAMCo” are conducting their own examinations of all Master and Mates on board all Contracted
vessels. Depending on the result of such examination, the respective person either “PASS” or “FAIL”, as far as “ÁRAMCo” inspectors
are concerned.
If the Former, the individual has clearance from “ÁRAMCo” to be appointed on board, but if the latter, the individual is not
considered to be acceptable to “ÁRAMCo” for employment on any vessel working in their offshore areas, and the Company have no
option then in turn has to be examined by “ÁRAMCo”.
Obviously this has caused major administrative and financial problem for the Company, over which we unfortunately have no control.
It is stressed that for obvious reason we need all Master and mates to “PASS” the examination, and to this end, we show below, as list of
the items upon which questions are likely to be asked by the “ÁRAMCo” examiner.
Questions for Evaluation of Master & Mates
To be completed 15-30 minutes.
Knowledge of International Regulation for Preventing Collision at Sea:
ALL (WHOLE)
1. Day & Night & Fog signal for vessel under way?
= (Two-Side; Two-Top; Stern // “▬” every 2 minutes, ‘ T’)
2. Day & Night & Fog signal for vessel not make way from water?
= (Two-Side; Two-Top; Stern // Two red light 360,0o // “▬ ▬” every 2 minutes – 2 sec, ‘M’)
3. Day & Night & Fog signal for vessel at anchor?
=(Ball // White Bow-Stern mast light 360,0o // “•▬ •” Rapidly ring after signal, ‘R’)
4. Day & Night & Fog signal for vessel aground? = (Three Ball // Two Red light 360, 0o //
“•••” separate stroke on the bell
“• ▬ •“Rapidly ring after signal + given
“•••” separate stroke on the bell, ‘S’‘R’‘S’)
10. Day & Night & Fog signal Vessel restricted in their ability to manoeuvring?
= ( Ball – Diamond – Ball // Red –White - Red light 360,0o // “▬ ••”, ‘D’)
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11. Day & Night & Fog signal Vessel engage mine clearance? =(• • Three ball, Three green light 360,0o //
Two Diamond – Two Ball from side)
12. Day & Night & Fog signal Vessel dredger operational? = (Ball – Diamond – Ball // Two Diamond – Two Ball;
Two-Side; Two Top; Stern; Red –White - Red; Two Red 360,0o/ Two Green 360,0o “▬ ••”,‘D’)
13. Day & Night & Fog signal Vessel Not Under command?
= ( Two Ball // Two Red light 360,0o) // “▬ ••”,‘D’)
22. What kind of vessel exhibits three red lights in a vertical line?
Vessels constrained by draft
23. What is the sound signal for restricted visibility?
“▬” every 2 minutes, ‘ T’
1 prolong every 2 minutes
24. What are the necessary precautions to be taking when vessel is on restricted visibility?
St/by to maneuvering for prevent collision (safe speed- eng. ready for immediately maneuver- make fog signal-
radar on – 2 watch keeping
25. Precautions to adopt in condition of poor visibility?
Keep 2 watches looking in bridge + 2 radar working
26. What will you do, when in poor visibility?
Keep 2 watch looking in out side the bridge in 2 wing-reduce the speed – all time st/by engine for
maneuvering- 2 radar working
27. Action to take when vessels are negotiating areas of shallow water?
Reduce speed and st/by anchor-st/by eng to maneuvering- echosounder on
28. Lights & Fog signal for Oil platforms ?
= (“ ••▬” // “U”)
East Cardinal
Buoy
36. Chart symbols for; - Light, Depth, and Nature of Bottom. Definition Racon (ARAMCO-Additional
sheet.)
Identify Oil pipelines: Use & Disused Trenched (Berried), Power lines,
Trunk lines, Marked pipeline.
Dryind Hights
Depth of water over Pipelines, Crossing Pipelines. Drying heights, Wreck symbols,
What we want to be able to do in practice is predict a) how deep the water is and b) how fast
it is moving at any given time. This section outlines all the sources of tidal information and
explains how you use them.
However before we start, let us look at the tidal terms that are used so that we can fully
understand the information as it is given to us.
This refers to when the tide is fully “up” and fully “down”. We talk about the time of high or
low water, and the height of high or low water.
This is the difference between the heights of high water and low water at any particular place.
It is generally given in meters. As explained above, the range is greater at spring tides and
smaller at neap tides (spring range is greater than neap range).
If we want to work out the depth somewhere at a particular time, what we need is to know:
a) what is the absolutely minimum depth that can ever happen, and
b) how much extra depth we are getting because the tide is part way up.
You can use this information to tell you some things you might want to know: for example, the
MHWS added to the charted depth at a particular place shows the average depth you will get
there at high water on spring tides - approximately the greatest depth you are ever going to
get there.
Use MLWS and it will tell you approximately the least depth you will ever get.
Finally when the tide is coming in we call it flooding, and when it’s going out it’s ebbing.
37A South Safanya 1100 hrs, 29th June 2003, you have a draft 4, 3 m, a sounding of 6,2 m.
What is overall depth of water under keel? = (1, 9 meters)
37B What is depth of water at West pier Spit Buoy at 1000 hrs, on 29th December 2004 year.
= 4,7+0,72=5,42 meters.
38. Determine whether tide flooding or tide ebbing with tide table.
39. Familiarity with ARAMCO tide tables, Interpolation, & International & Explain terminology.
40. Definition of: L.A.T – Lowest Astronomical Tide (Chart datum - Zero of chart)
I.S.L.W – Indian Spring Low Water
H.A.T – Highest Astronomical Tide
M.S.L – Mean Sea Level
I. A. L. A– International Association Lighthouse Authority.
B.A. – British Admiralty Chart
S. U. R – Saudi Aramco Chart.
S. C. B. A– Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus.
E. E. B. D – Emergency Escape Breathing Device.
EPIRB – Emergency position indicating Radio Beacon.
SART – Search and Rescue Radar Transponder.
41.Calculate. Explain mean stability, and all abbreviations:
Ship’s D =1000; KG =4.0m, load W=200kg; KG = 5.0m. Find KG after load.
W KG M
1000 4.0 4000
200 5.0 1000 5000 : 1200 = 4.16 (4.17) KG after load.
1200 ? 5000
G Centre of gravity LBP Length between perpendiculars
KG Centre of gravity above keel. ø Angle of inclination.
M Metacentre LOA Length over all.
B Moulded breadth of ship MLD Moulded draft of ship
GM Metacentric high
GZ Actual righting arms measured from G. KM Vertical distance of transverse metacentre M before
loading/discharging
LCF Longitinual centre of floatation MTC Meter per centimeter
LCB Longitinual centre of buoyancy MTI Inch per centimeter
Lightship Weight + KG
Capacities & KG's of Compartments/Tanks
Loaded KG
F.S.E.
GM/KG
Using the formula:- Gg1 = w x d = W d (+ if loaded, - if discharged) (only use W if a shifted weight) (don't
use small d for shifted weight)
If using more than one weight, best to do a Table of moments
KG = KM - GM
GM = KM - KG
KM = KG + GM
Tables of Moments
Loaded weights
KG = Total Moments
Total Weight
7.420088
KG = 900,084.82= 7.420088
121,303.8
Vessels final KG is 7.420 metres, the vessel has more draught and less freeboard
Discharged weights
KG = Total Moments
Total Weight
KG = 779,915.18= 6.429437330075397
121,303.8
Vessels final KG is 6.430 metres, the vessel has less draught and more freeboard
Stability formulas
Stability Formulas
KM = KG + GM
KG = KM - GM
GM = KM - KG
Gg1 = w x d
........W ± w
"w" is the weight being loaded/discharged/shifted and "d" is the distance the centre of gravity is going to move
"W" is the total weight of the boat and "w" is the weight being taken onboard/discharged/shifted
Table of Moments
To find the total moment for the item being used including the vessel, multiplying the items weight by the
items KG
(Weight x KG = Moment)
Find the moments first then - If all items are loaded, add all the weights together as well as adding all the
moments together, then divide the total weights by the total moments to give you your new KG
Find the moments first then - If all items are discharged, subtract all the weights from the vessels weight as
well as subtracting all the moments from the vessels moments, then divide the total weights by the total
moments to give you your new KG
Find the moments first then - If items are loaded/discharged, add all the weights being loaded to the vessels
weight then subtract the discharged weight from the total loaded weight then all the loaded moments to the
vessels moments then subtract all the discharged moments from the total loaded moments, then divide the
total weights by the total moments to give you your new KG
Example
KG = Final weight
.......Final moment
KG = 1800
.......7119
KG = 0.2528445 metres
KG = 0.253 (3 decimal figures)
More Formulas
The word "Stability" means if the vessel is heeled by an external force it has the ability to right herself
whether its transverse, statical or longitudinal stability.
From Author - Make sure you know whats in the stability book before going for an Oral Exam
Most vessels have a stability book and a common question from the captains is what are the loading
conditions in a stability book, this can vary for different vessels, best to have a look and see how many
loading conditions you have, this is an example
(1) The bare vessel without any stores or weights before going to sea
(2) The vessel loaded ready to go to sea
(3) Fishing vessels when they arrive at their fishing ground
(4) When they finish their fishing trip with 20% maximum catch onboard before leaving the fishing
grounds
(5) Before they arrive in harbour with 20% maximum catch
(6) When they finish their fishing trip with 100% maximum catch onboard before leaving the fishing
grounds
(7) Before they arrive in harbour with 100% maximum catch
Every vessel must check their vessels if taking a heavy load onboard to make sure the vessel does not
become top heavy, making the Centre of Gravity to rise up maybe above the Metacentre giving the vessel
a capsizing lever.
Caution must be maintained regarding a vessels stability when working North in winter months, Ice
accretion can easy catch an experienced seaman out, never let ice accumulate on your vessel, this will
give you an angle of loll.
Cargo vessels have to make sure they can carry any materials by working out the area they have in their
hold and working out the mass of the material they're going to be taking aboard to make sure they can
take that material, every material has different masses
If your doing modifications to your vessel, get a stability captain down to make sure your vessel is safe to
go to sea, your altering the vessels stability, you might capsize.
A lot of vessels have been lost because of the effects of F.S.E.(Free surface effect) F.S.E. makes your
vessels GM smaller and is very dangerous
Try this for a demonstration of F.S.E.
Place a half full plastic lemonade bottle on the flat of your hand
don't grip the bottle and let the liquid move slowly
It will fall off your hand
Imagine what this does to a vessel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Keep F.S.E. to a minimum.
Keep all water tight doors and hatches closed while at sea.
Keep the bilge's dry.
Never let freeing ports to become blocked.
When at sea, never turn your vessel with any quantity of water on your deck.
45. What is meant by TPC / TPI (Tons Per Centimeters/ Inch) immersion.
= (The increase displacement due to a uniform increase in draught of one centimeter)
46. Load Line? Appropriate Load Line & Seasonal Zone/Draught Mark?
Water depth
Squat
Squat is the increase in draught and trim that occurs when a ship moves on
the surface of the sea. At low speed, a ship sinks bodily and trims by the
head. At high speed, a ship bodily lifts and trims by the stern. At especially
high speed, the ship can plane. However, squat is greatest in shallow water
where the resulting increase in draught and trim can cause grounding. This, of
course, provides a further limit on speed in shallow water, consideration of
grounding due to squat being especially important if the under-keel clearance
is 10% or less of the draught and the speed is 70%
or more of the limiting speed. In shallow water, squat can be estimated by
adding 10% to the draught or 0.3 meters for every 5 knots of speed.
= (F max = 2 x C B x VK2 / 100 (C B =0,70m; K – Speed in Knots)) Brown’s Page 625-626.
For a vessel underway, the bodily sinkage and change of trim which are caused by the pressure distribution on the hull due to
the relative motion of water and hull. The effect begins to increase significantly at depth-to-draft ratios less than 2.5. It
increases rapidly with speed and is augmented in narrow channels.
48. What is GHA and Declination of a celestial body?
Greenwich hour angle. . Angular distance west of the Greenwich celestial meridian; the arc of the celestial equator, or the
angle at the celestial pole, between the upper branch of the Greenwich celestial
meridian and the hour circle of a point on the celestial sphere, measured westward from the Greenwich celestial meridian
through 360°; local hour angle at the Greenwich meridian.
declination. , n. 1. Angular distance north or south of the celestial equator; the arc of an hour circle between the celestial
equator and a point on the celestial sphere, measured northward or southward from the celestial equator through 90°, and
labeled N or S (+ or -) to indicate the direction of measurement. 2. Short for MAGNETIC DECLINATION.
49. Calculate compass error by SUN. Explain how you do it?
Explanation the determinate error of a celestial body (SUN)?
1.Time UTC; 2.Latitude; 3.Longetude; 4.Declanetion (D); 5.GCo - Deg º; 6.MCo - Degº;
7. In time UTC, find in Brown’s almanac GHA SUN, only hours.
8. Also in Brown’s find Increments (ICR) minutes & seconds, if data in table increase, it’s (+) or decrease (-).
9. GHA SUN + λ(long) = LHA (Pay attention 1º = 60’ // 60’ = 1º)
10. Go in table NORIE’S, entry the table “A”, only with LHA (deg) &ϕ (lat), find “A”.
11. Entry the table “B”, only with D and LHA, find “B”
12. If “A” South and “B” South then plus (+), “A+B=C”; if “A” North and “B” South deduction “A-B=C”.
13.”C”given name biggest mark South or North.
14. With “C” andϕ (lat), entry the table “C”, find Azimuth.
15. Azimuths have combination name, with receiving mean “C” & LHA. Name East or West, where stay ship.
50.” M.O.B / Williamson turn ” – Understood and Explain.
Williamson Turn
Alter hard to port till you see 200 degrees on your compass
Square up your helm to amidships, this will take you down on a reciprocal course
THE MEAN WILLIAMSON TURN FOR MAN OVERBOARD RECOVERY IN OPEN WATER
1. Man overboard is declaring.
2. If victim in sight, first life ring “as soon as possible”.
3. If at night, second ring with light signal throw “as soon as possible”.
4. Word is passed quickly to the bridge. The time is noted.
5. Ring thrower is the spotter until chief officer arrives.
6. Captain // Mate note course, maintains speed, turns full right rudder.
7. When at original course plus 60 then turns port full rudder.
8. As approaching original course plus 180 rudders goes to.
9. Mate spotter directs master until victim in master’s sight.
10. For recovery safety victim to be to kept weather side of the vessel.
11. Mate supervises for crew victim recovery.
12. Ring with line is thrown to victim, vessel propulsion at stop.
13. Victim recovered from the sea, vessel back to underway.
14. First aid & evacuation procedures to be followed victim injured.
15. Entries to be made in vessel log book noting:
- Time overboard reported; Time recovery; Time Elapsed.
- Location/Weather/Sea condition.
- Comments for improvements – DRILLS.
- Name of crewmember - real incident.
59. How to determine the presence of H 2 S at on Oil platform. What precaution action to take.
1. Always enter any potential H 2 S Hazard Zone from the Upwind Direction.
2. Unless specifically instructed otherwise, always assume that an H 2 S Hazard exists.
3. Vessel crew should all wear SCBA ( ) Units when entering a potential H 2 S Hazard Zone.
4. H 2 S heavier than air and readily soluble in water.
5. The potential H 2 S Hazard can be substantially reduced by operating the vessel's Protective water spray
System & Fire Fighting Monitors in a full spray pattern.
60. In time GAS ALERT! When ship tie-up to RIG. What will you do?
Cast off All crew on deck coming inside the accommodation the vessel take the position up wind
61. When ship tie-up to RIG. You OOW, if on deck collapse man, from poisoning. What will you do?
Move affected person to fresh air. If breathing is difficult, administer oxygen. If breathing has stopped,
give cardio-pulmonary resuscitation. Keep person warm and quiet.
62. What you do? For pull out from Rig, in time GAS ALERT?
63. If you are along side the platform, and you found out that there is a leaking. What will you do?
1. Do not enter any significant floating crude oil realize area.
2. Unless specifically confirmed by the Incident Command Post (ICP) always assume that an H 2 S Hazard
exists.
3. Approach the crude oil realize from the Upwind Direction.
4. Operate the Vessel Protective Waterspray System to minimize the potential ignition hazard.
5. Utilize the Vessel Fire Monitors in a protective waterspray nozzle pattern to disperse the floating
crude oil or to protect rescue craft or persons in the open sea.
64. Determine compass Error: Convert Compass to True True to Compass. Apply magnetic error.
(Variation is 3 W, Deviation is 2 E, Bearing 243 Compass, Defined try bearing) = True -2420
0 0 0
Remember the cadet rule compass to true add easterly, subtract westerly.
True to compass add westerly, subtract easterly.
66. Chart plotting. (Current; Set and Drift) Explain with help graphic (drawing). 80 100 90 110 10 (page 334-
335)
(Calculate drift from wind & current : 80 100
90
10 110
Track Made good, the course the tide will take you.
75. How many people must be on deck in time anchor handling operation? = (1-Officer; 2 – AB)
78. What action will do Rig Master, day before Rig Move? What you will do?
79. What consist towline? Explain.
This instruction describes the NA oil operation and marine department guidelines for the work
procedures which will provide a safe work environment and protect Saudi Aramco offshore producing
facilities, minimize production losses and marine equipment standby costs.
1. Intent.
2. 14 prior notice.
3. Work review and planning meeting
4. Responsibilities.
5. Buoying requirements
6. Moving equipment into, within, and out of oil fields.
7. Anchoring within the oil field.
8. Depressurizing underwater pipeline and platform topside piping and de-energizing subsea cables
82. Physical demonstration of maneuvering the vessel.
(Special awareness of actual Tidal & Wind conditions. Use of engine’s and Helm to control the vessel
83. Certificate & STCW, Medical
84. Convertation: Feet – Meters; Meters – Feet; Tons – Kg – Libss – Barrels,
85. Расчет поправки компаса ГК по таблице NORIE'S Nautical Table.
The examine may ask additional questions to the above, and request further practical display of
boat handling capability.
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A. Pelican Hook of suitable size and SWL for 52 mm diameter anchor pennant Wire
B. Pelican Hook Pennant Wire of suitable length and SWL
3.Buoy Catcher Lasso;
1 x safety hook for each Tugger winch available of suitable SWL for Winch.
5.Anchor Handling Hook;
1 x anchor-handling hook of 25 tones SWL
6.Snatch Blocks;
7.Wire Slings;
A wide selection of certificated Wire Slings for use during anchor handling and cargo
duties to include, but not limited to 1o mm, 13mm, 19mm, and 24 mm F S W of varying length.
(A couple of 10 mm dm. Strops about 1 meter in Length will be invaluable)
8.Rope Coils;
An adequate supply of wire, man made rope, and natural rope coils to
effectively cover all eventualities. To included but not limited to replacement of heaving lines, cargo Securing
lashings, and tugger wire replacement.
9.Bull Dog Grips:
An adequate supply of BULL DOG GRIPS of various sizes to fit the wire coils supplied.
10.Hand thrown grapple hook and line.