Why Do Commercial Vessels Rely on Mobil Marine Lubricants?
Downtime isn’t an option for commercial vessels. Mobil Marine lubricants provide comprehensive, manufacturer-certified protection for engines, hydraulics, stern tubes, and more. With VGP-compliant options and expert-backed reliability services like used oil analysis and shipboard consultations, Mobil Marine ensures peak performance. As the authorized distributor from Charleston to Cocoa, Walthall Oil delivers premium lubricants dockside, keeping your fleet moving.
If you operate commercial vessels on inshore or offshore waters, you know that downtime is not an option. Dockside downtime can mean late shipments, delayed ferry crossings, missed prime fishing times, or other potential complications.
A breakdown underway is a thousand times worse, requiring expensive service vessel calls, offshore tugs, or even fines and penalties if your stalled vessel impedes a navigational waterway.
As a marine operator, you want to take pains to ensure that your vessel and your crew are where they’re supposed to be when they’re supposed to be there. That means having confidence that every shipboard system is maintained perfectly and kept in exceptional working order.
Enter Mobil Marine lubricants and Walthall Oil. Together, these two industry-leading teams can provide you with stem-to-stern protection for every system on your vessel. This month, the Walthall team is sharing some of the main reasons that shipowners give for trusting Mobil Marine lubricants to keep their vessels underway.
There’s a Mobil Marine Lubricant for Every System
Your engines need engine oil or cylinder lube. Your shipboard hydraulics require special hydraulic oil. Reduction gears require specialized grease. Your stern tube needs yet another special oil or grease. Even the wire ropes and hawsers on your winches, cranes, or capstans need lubrication to slip smoothly through their mechanisms and be protected from the ravages of saltwater, ice, and the thousands of other extreme conditions experienced in blue, green, or even brown water.
Mobil Marine offers one of the most comprehensive lines of marine lubricants available, each one specially formulated to provide protection in one of the harshest environments on Earth. Mobil’s family of marine lubricants includes:
- Mobilgard Marine Engine and Cylinder Oils
- Mobil SHC ST Stern Tube Lubricants
- Mobil, Mobilith, and Mobilgrease Marine Greases
- Mobil SHC Marine Circulating and Gear System Oils
- Mobil SHC Aware Marine Hydraulic Oils
- Mobiltherm Marine Thermal Oils
- Mobil Rarus Marine Air Compressor Oils
- Mobil Gargoyle Arctic and EAL Arctic Marine Refrigeration Compressor Oils
- Mobilarma Marine Lubricant for Wire Ropes
- Mobiltac Marine Lubricant for Open Gear Systems (winches, capstans, etc.)
Mobil Marine VGP-compliant Lubricants
For applications requiring a VGP-compliant lubricant, Mobil offers a wide selection of SHC Aware synthetic products that meet or exceed the performance of their petroleum-based counterparts but are fully compliant with the EPA’s 2013 VGP guidelines for:
- Biodegradability
- Non-toxicity
- Non-bioaccumulation
Mobil Marine Lubricants Are Manufacturer Certified
It doesn’t matter how skilled your engine room crew is, nobody knows your vessel’s powerplant as well as the manufacturer. Mobil has worked in coordination with many of the leading marine engine manufacturers and developed solutions that are fully certified to meet or exceed OEM standards.
Our marine powerplant partners include:
- Cummins
- Volvo Penta
- Mitsubishi
- Yanmar
- John Deere
- Caterpillar
- MTU
- MAN
Mobil Marine Lubricants Are Backed by Expertise
When you partner with a certified Mobil Marine supplier, such as Walthall Oil, you get not only the world’s top lubrication products for your vessel but also access to the Mobil Marine engineering team and other Mobil reliability services.
As a Mobil Marine lubricant customer, you can elect to sign up for Mobil lubrication analysis service. This powerful tool leverages the valuable information that can be derived from a detailed chemical analysis of your vessel’s used lubricants:
- Particulate analysis identifies metal and other particles in the lubricant to provide details on component wear and find trouble spots before they can become significant problems.
- Chemical analysis helps identify both lubricant breakdown and contamination, allowing you to see when a lubricant or your lubrication program or engine room protocols aren’t up to the job.
You also unlock access to Mobil’s marine engineers, who are available to perform shipboard consultation services. Need some ideas on improving lubricant longevity? Want to secure a better lubricant storage system or provide your engineering crew with better training? Mobil Marine’s engineers comprise:
- Dedicated marine engineers who understand the challenges of marine lubrication.
- A Field Engineering Services Team that is ready to help you find solutions to your issues.
- A Technical Help Desk for assistance with builder specs and lube charting.
Mobil Marine Lubricants Are Convenient With Walthall!
Walthall Oil Company is proud to be the authorized distributor for Mobil Marine lubricants along the Atlantic coast between Charleston, SC, and Cocoa, FL. If you call on Charleston, Savannah, Brunswick, Jacksonville, or Cocoa, you’re never far from a reliable supply of the Mobil Marine products you need.
Our team can provide timely dockside delivery of your marine lubricants across our entire service area. With more than seven decades of experience in fuel and lubrication distribution and services, we understand how the proper lubricant can mean the difference between a profitable voyage and time wasted dockside for an engine overhaul or in drydock for a prop shaft replacement.
Walthall Oil: Your Marine Lubrication Experts
Walthall Oil Company is excited to take on our role as Mobil Marine’s newest partner for the Southeastern United States. Vessel owners operating in blue water or inshore environments on the US East Coast enjoy the convenience and savings of having a single partner to provide them with turnkey marine lubricant solutions. Give us a call today at 800-633-5685 to find out how Walthall can work for you!
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