Abstract
For many decades, the marine industry has been a conservative environment with few changes in legislations and engine design. By the end of previous century, however, the demand for more engine power, followed by increased environmental awareness, triggered tremendous changes in this industry segment.
Since the economic recession started several years ago, the marine industry faced an increasing need to reduce operating costs. This resulted in operational changes and triggered the need for new vessel-and engine designs. These changes also had an impact on the lubrication of low-speed marine engines.
The selection of the correct cylinder oil and oil feed rate to balance these new conditions in the engine is more important than ever. Chevron has therefore developed its DOT.FAST service to accompany a full range of high quality cylinder oil grades available to guide its customers in achieving reliable and safe operation.
