FMT Shipyard & Repair

SLURRY CLASS, 30,000BBL Calibrated Capacity, Double Hull – Vapor Recovery

  • Dimension: 297.5’x54’x12’ (11’0” at machinery deck)
  • Two designs; Lead Rake & Trail Rake
  • Vapor tight system with vent stacks, sight glasses, & closed gauging system
  • Shore side high level spill alarm
  • Visual high level dip sticks
  • Ice Strengthen Bow Rake design
  • Heavy and/or light product pumps, i.e; (1) IMO & (1) BJ12XT three stage pump
  • Powered by two (2) 425 hp pump engines
  • Electrical power supplied by an onboard John Deere 99 Kw genset
  • Thermal heated by one (1) 8 million B.T.U. Volcanic heater , with a dual fault block out panel
  • Cargo Tank Bottoms inclined to facilitate better cargo stripping
  • Independent burp tank for thermal oil release
  • Cargo Tank Bottoms inclined to facilitate better cargo stripping
  • Double layer, serpentine, interwoven, thermal coils, (1 ½” & 21”), stainless steel thermal coils on deck and in the vapor space; heat can be disturbed to any one area of the cargo tanks, even when one set of coils fails or is inoperative
  • Two, saddle bag fuel oil tanks, 14,000 gallons onboard
  • Pigtail cord electrical back up system
  • Redundant OMEGA Over Pressuring System to detect a pipeline or hose blockage thus preventing serious injury  

Special Features:

  • A hybrid barge capably of either loading clean service product and/or put into heavy oil service to meet market needs
  • Increased BBL capacity in way of a increased cargo truck adds cubic capacity over the Heavy Oil Class barge by 7.5% in tank volume!