MARPOL ANNEX I: OIL Discharge Criteria

Outside Special Areas

Cargo & Ballast

All these conditions must be met
Not in a Special Area, must wait until outside of
special area
Must be more than 50 n.miles from nearest land
tanker must be proceeding en-route
Oil Discharge Monitoring Equipment (ODME)

Approved by administration
Continuous record of discharge rate.
Must be used for every discharge made.
Must stop discharge if instantaneous rate
of discharge is exceeded.
Instantaneous rate of discharge of oil content does
not exceed 30 litres per nautical mile
The discharge of clean or segregated ballast is not
prohibited when in a special area
Machinery Spaces (excluding pump rooms, slop tanks)
All of these conditions must be met
Ship must be proceeding en-route
The oily mixture is processed through oil filtering
equipment

The oily mixture does not originate from the cargo

pump rooms of an oil tanker
The oily mixture is not mixed with cargo residues in
the case of oil tankers

Records for Tankers over 150 GT

Must be provided with Slop Tanks not less than 3% of cargo capacity
Oil Record Book, Part 1 Machinery Spaces
Oil Record Book, Part 2 Cargo & Ballast Operations
ODME Records kept for 3 years
Records for All Ships over 400 GT
Oil Record Book, Part 1 Discharges from Machinery Spaces
ODME Records Kept 3 years
Inside Special Areas

Machinery Spaces (excluding pump rooms, slop tanks)

Oily water processed through oil filtering equipment, ODME
as noted above

Ship is En-Route
Oil content does not exceed 15 ppm
Oily mixture does not originate from pump room bilges on
oil tanker
Oily mixture is not mixed with cargo residues
In the Antarctic any discharge of oil into sea is
prohibited
Cargo & Ballast
Any discharge while in a special area is not all is not
allowed from the cargo areas of oil tankers.