OIL OPERATIONS

AND SHIPPING
Strategies to successful
oil trading and vessel
chartering

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What you will gain
in attending

Who Should Attend?

Charterers and Operators

Understand the role of operator in oil trading

and shipping
Learn essential terms and details on international
oil trading
Know the key roles and work with your inspectors,
expeditors, and agents in handling your cargoes
and vessels efficiently
Obtain a better understanding of general terms
and conditions by oil operators
Learn more about transshipment operations
including ship to ship transfer, and ship to
barge - lightering
Get more confident in freight calculations

Chartering executives
Trade (import/export) executives
Claims executives
Marketing and operations executives
Shipbrokers

Understand demurrage issues and participate

in a demurrage workshop

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ABOUT THE COURSE

COURSE DIRECTOR

At the heart of any successful international oil

trade is an effective trading operations and a
safe and reliable shipping that will support this
activity. It is therefore crucial for everyone in the
oil and petroleum trade business to gain a better
understanding of trading and shipping terms
that are relevant to exporting and importing oil
and related cargos, as well as the key people/
organizations and tasks that will ensure successful
trade and quality tanker chartering.
This course is designed to give a specialist oil
trading and shipping operations knowledge
to those involved in trading, chartering, and
shipbroking of oil and tanker vessels. This course
will cover key topics and issues in oil trading and
tanker shipping and will provide practical insights
and possible remedies to these issues. It will
ensure an understanding of the strategies to be
followed by operators for trading and shipping
oil and related cargos, and the issues involved
with claims, including demurrage.

UPCOMING EVENTS
Oil & Gas Flowlines and Transportation
Pipeline Inspection, Maintenance
and Repair
28-30 January 2015, Kuala Lumpur
http://pipeline.invidaevents.com
Offshore Pipeline Engineering
Masterclass
2-4 February 2015, Singapore
http://offshorepipeline.invidaevents.com
EPC in Oil and Gas
9-12 March 2015, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Advanced Tanker Demurrage & Claims
Management Masterclass
20-21 April 2015, Singapore
Next Generation Terminals, Tanks,
and Tankers
21-24 April 2015, Singapore
www.nextgenterminals.com

Download our 2015 Calendar of Events

to view the complete list of courses

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DAVID ATKINS

DAVID ATKINS has been in the oil and shipping industry

for more than 30 years, during which time he has held
positions in procurement, oil trading and tanker operations,
supply logistics, refinery throughput planning, gas field
production and marketing, shipbroking, vessel agency
and until 2008 in demurrage and claims management.
He has participated in a number of industry forums and
served on North Sea oil and pipeline management and
pricing committees.

David started his career with BP holding positions in
procurement, trading and supply logistics and operations
and refinery throughput planning. After 11 years with
BP, David left to take up a position with a Middle East
Shipping Agency based in Bahrain, where he jointly
headed up the tanker agency team responsible for Bahrain
and neighbouring Saudi Arabia. Returning to the UK he
subsequently held positions in oil trading, shipbroking
and north sea oil exploration and production.

Since 2008 David has worked as a consultant and advises
companies on demurrage and insurance claims and on the
implementation of improved back-office claims procedures.
David advises companies on demurrage and insurance
claims and on the implementation of improved back-office
claims procedures. Some recent projects he has been
involved in have included redrafting General Terms and
Conditions for a Terminal and Pipeline company, assisting
Company Administrators in the recovery of outstanding
debts of a Ship Management company and the drafting of
Barge Terms and Conditions for an International Oil Major.

David is a guest lecturer for the Institute of Chartered
Shipbrokers and The National Maritime College of Ireland in
association with GAC. He presents laytime and demurrage
workshops and other training courses for both UK and
International clients. David is a member of the Energy
Institute.

We can bring any course to

you, any time, any location.
Any InVida Events course can be run in-house at your
location to fit your training needs. Courses can be
customised according to your requirements.
To set-up a session at your location,
Please contact:
Sheryl Pacheco at
Email: sheryl.pacheco@invidaevents.com
Tel: +65 6479 7166
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AGENDA

This course agenda serves as a guide which may be altered to address participants requirements on
consensus. Course registration at 8:30am / Course starts at 9:00am / Course ends at 5:00 pm

DAY 1

Session

Topics

The Oil and Ship

Operator

The role of the operator

Being proactive not reactive
The trading bottom line

The Trading Deal

International trade
International sale of goods
Carriage of goods by sea
Terms of payment
Payment letter of indemnity
Bills of lading
Cargo letter of indemnity
Nomination clauses - vessel
Nomination clauses - cargo
Documentary instructions
Letters of credit

Group work/exercise
During this session, there will be a review and discussions
on examples of Letters of Indemnity, Nomination templates,
and Letters of Credit.

Independent Inspectors

Appointment of the inspector

Testing and sampling of the cargo
Certificates of quantity and quality
Off-spec cargoes

Cargo Expeditors

Their role
Who appoints the Expeditor?
Independent or in-house?

The Shipping Agent

Who appoints the Agent

Who pays the Agent
The agents role
Main Agency
Protective Agency
Why insure
Example of an insurance clause
Making a claim

Cargo Insurance

General Terms &

Conditions (GT&Cs)

Why do companies have a standard

GT&Cs
Basic contract plus GT&Cs versus a
Comprehensive Contract
Case study: Review of GT&Cs

Session

DAY 2

Topics

Transhipment
Ship to Ship (STS)

Barges (Lightering)

Barges
Freight Calculation

Fundamentals of
Demurrage

Demurrage Workshop

Why perform STS

Where can you perform STS
Equipment and Personnel
Chartering the daughter vessel
Lightering to barges
Why perform Lightering
Where can you perform Lightering
Equipment and personnel
Chartering the Lightering barge
Chartering
Operations
Worldscale
Examples of a freight calculation
Exercise in performing freight
calculation
What is demurrage
Laydays and laytime
Early and late arrival clauses
When does laytime begin and end
Exceptions to laytime
Weather clauses
Pumping clauses
Example of a pumping formula
Reversibility
Contract demurrage
Time bars
Review of demurrage claim and
calculation of demurrage due

WHAT OUR PAST DELEGATES

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entertaining.
- Petronas Chemicals Marketing
Have gained additional knowledge from
group discussions and from other participants
who has different backgrounds.
- Dubai Supply Authority
Course was very informative and
useful for my job
- Petronas Carigali
It was very useful to me. I hope I can introduce
the information which I got from here to my
company and colleagues.
- Emarat Maritime LLC
Its a good platform for discussion and
learning and growth is there in the course.
- Cavalier Energy LLC

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