# Bunkering while underway **URL:** \ **Category:** Professional Mariner Forum\ **Created:** [June 25, 2021, 12:23pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/bunkering-while-underway/59831 "2021-06-25T12:23:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ombugge](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/ombugge/32/11217_2.png) [@ombugge](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/ombugge)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2021, 10:32am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/bunkering-while-underway/59831/21 "2021-07-03T10:32:30Z")
The new SSVs chartered by PSG meet all your wishes and then some: > **[Support Vessels](https://www.pgs.com/marine-acquisition/tools-and-techniques/the-fleet/support/support-vessels2/)** > > Massive, highly efficient, high density seismic operations such as those carried out worldwide by the PGS fleet are dependent on reliable support vessels. They act as transport and accommodation during crew change, and refueling vessels d … Thor Magni and her sisters: > **[M/S «THOR MAGNI» - Skipsrevyen.no](https://www.skipsrevyen.no/batomtaler/m-s-thor-magni/)** > > – seismic support fartøy fra Tyrkia til Færøyene In Norwegian, but translate well by GT. They are working with the Ranform W class of Seismic vessels worldwide: > **[Ramform Hyperion (05/2017)](https://maritimt.com/nb/batomtaler/ramform-hyperion-052017)** > > I mars ble Ramform Hyperion overlevert fra Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Nagasaki, Japan til Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS), Oslo. Seismikkskipet er av designtype Ramform Titan, en videreføring av Ramform-designet utviklet av Roar Ramde på 1990-tallet.... PS\> These SSVs carry both LSHFO and MDO for transfer to the mothership by in-line method. ---
**Author:** ![Slick\_cam1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/slick_cam1/32/817_2.png) [@Slick\_cam1](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Slick_cam1)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2021, 11:32am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/bunkering-while-underway/59831/22 "2021-07-03T11:32:40Z")
I believe AET (American Eagle Tankers) handles the Galveston lightering Yokohoma’s now, for the most part, with a fleet of service vessels that tote them around. ---
**Author:** ![Heiwa](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/heiwa/32/1054_2.png) [@Heiwa](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Heiwa)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2021, 4:42pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/bunkering-while-underway/59831/23 "2021-07-03T16:42:32Z")
But how can you bunker underway from a truck on a quay? ---
**Author:** ![Hogsnort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ba8739/32.png) [@Hogsnort](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Hogsnort)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2021, 7:07pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/bunkering-while-underway/59831/24 "2021-07-03T19:07:53Z")
If I read the Norwegian correctly it didn’t mention any DP equipment fitted. ---
**Author:** ![Hogsnort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ba8739/32.png) [@Hogsnort](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Hogsnort)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2021, 7:18pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/bunkering-while-underway/59831/25 "2021-07-03T19:18:07Z")
I don’t know if they still do it but years ago we lightered to tankers of Sabine Pass. We did two trips loading from a SPM buoy off Bonny in Nigeria. The tankers had Yokohama fenders in davits. The first trip was OK. The second we had to get underway to provide a lee for the shuttle tankers in bad weather. I can’t remember the year but I remember it was disastrous for Florida’s orange crop. The old man and third mate were on the bridge and the mate and I in the cargo control room, looking after mooring the tankers, discharge, ballast, crude oil washing etc. By the time we finished we had forgotten what a shower or a bunk looked like. ---
**Author:** ![SeaEagle](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/seaeagle/32/17788_2.png) [@SeaEagle](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/SeaEagle)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2021, 7:30pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/bunkering-while-underway/59831/26 "2021-07-03T19:30:41Z")
I can relate sir. ---
**Author:** ![ombugge](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/ombugge/32/11217_2.png) [@ombugge](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/ombugge)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2021, 8:05pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/bunkering-while-underway/59831/27 "2021-07-03T20:05:16Z")
It doesn’t say anything about DPS equipment installed, but the Class notation NAUT-AW indicate that these SSVs have all the bells and whistles require. ---
**Author:** ![cmakin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/48db29/32.png) [@cmakin](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/cmakin)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2021, 11:48am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/bunkering-while-underway/59831/28 "2021-07-06T11:48:09Z")
Looking at their website, it looks like they took over the OMS vessels that handled the fenders. I seem to recall that they had some lightering tankers, too. All FOC vessels. I have been out of that part of the business for some time. . okay, decades. . . . [Previous page](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/bunkering-while-underway/59831.md?page=1)