Firefighting Systems On an offshore platform, detection has to work before there is a fire. The system is watching for gas, not flame, because by the time something is burning the useful window has already closed. That inverts how detection is designed, maintained, and audited. By MarineCraft Journal · 28 August 2026 · 10 mins … Read more
Workforce & Training The hard part of staffing an offshore scope is rarely finding people who can do the work. It is finding people whose certificates prove they can, are valid in the right jurisdiction, and are not about to expire halfway through the rotation. By MarineCraft Journal · 21 August 2026 · 9 mins … Read more
Trading & Markets Two ships bunkering the same grade on the same day, in ports a few hundred miles apart, can pay materially different prices. Crude explains the general level. Almost everything interesting happens in the layers stacked on top of it. By MarineCraft Journal · 21 August 2026 · 9 mins read 0.50%the sulphur … Read more
Workforce & Training The offshore safety officer role sits on a stack of separate qualifications: a statutory appointment, a professional safety certification, survival training, and medical fitness. Each comes from a different body, and a gap in any one keeps the person on the beach. By MarineCraft Journal · 21 August 2026 · 9 mins … Read more
Trading & Markets Fuel is the largest single cost of running most ships, and it is the one that moves. Understanding what actually drives the price of very low sulphur fuel oil, and how that price reaches your operating account, is worth more than watching a daily quote. By MarineCraft Journal · 20 August 2026 … Read more
HSE & Compliance The worst disaster in the history of offshore oil began with a piece of paper that was not passed on. A safety valve was removed, the permit for the job never reached the next shift, and the pump was restarted. 167 people died. The permit-to-work failures behind it recur, at smaller scale, … Read more
