An oil tanker, also known as a petroleum tanker, is a ship designed for the bulk transport of oil or its products. There are two basic types of oil tankers:...
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history of the oil tanker is part of the evolution of the technology of oil transportation alongside the oil industry. The technology of oil transportation...
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tanker (or tank ship or tankship) is a ship designed to transport or store liquids or gases in bulk. Major types of tankship include the oil tanker (or...
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Oil tankers generally have from 8 to 12 tanks. Each tank is split into two or three independent compartments by fore-and-aft bulkheads. The tanks are...
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Prestige oil spill occurred off the coast of Galicia, Spain in November 2002, caused by the sinking of the 26-year-old, structurally deficient oil tanker MV Prestige...
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A replenishment oiler or replenishment tanker is a naval auxiliary ship with fuel tanks and dry cargo holds which can supply both fuel and dry stores...
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List of tank truck explosions (redirect from 2021 Sierra Leone Oil tanker collision)
This is a list of tank truck explosions. On 10 June 1961 a Standard Oil tanker truck carrying 7,900 gallons of gasoline traveling through Toledo, Ohio...
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Double hull (redirect from Double hulled oil tanker)
to carry oil, ballast water or fresh water (ventilated by a gooseneck) help prevent pollution in case of liquid cargo (like oil in tankers) help to maintain...
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St Nikolas (ship) (redirect from Seizure of Suez Rajan oil tanker)
The oil tanker St Nikolas (formerly Suez Rajan) has been involved in two geopolitically prominent seizures, by the United States and Iran. In April 2023...
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Merchant aircraft carrier (redirect from Rapana class oil tanker)
MAC ships were adapted by adding a flight deck to a bulk grain ship or oil tanker enabling it to operate anti-submarine aircraft in support of Allied convoys...
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tanker MT Terranova (IMO number: 9092666) capsized and sank in Manila Bay, off the east coast of Lamao Point, Limay, Bataan, causing an ongoing oil spill...
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A shuttle tanker is a ship designed for oil transport from an off-shore oil field as an alternative to constructing oil pipelines. It is equipped with...
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Exxon Valdez (redirect from Mediterranean (oil tanker))
Exxon Valdez was an oil tanker that gained notoriety after running aground in Prince William Sound, spilling her cargo of crude oil into the sea. On 24...
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The Sanchi oil tanker collision occurred on 6 January 2018 when the Panamanian-flagged, Iranian-owned tanker Sanchi, with a full natural-gas condensate...
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The T3 tanker, or T3, are a class of seaworthy large tanker ships produced in the United States and used to transport fuel oil, gasoline or diesel before...
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December 2022. "Oil tanker jam forms off Turkey after start of Russian oil price cap – FT". Retrieved 5 December 2022. "Insurance-Related Oil Tanker Backlog Starts...
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Oil Tanker - Details and current position - IMO 9516923 - VesselFinder". www.vesselfinder.com. Retrieved 2023-11-27. "DELTA AMAZON, Crude Oil Tanker -...
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also occur on land. Oil spills can result from the release of crude oil from tankers, offshore platforms, drilling rigs, and wells. They may also involve...
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T2 tanker, or T2, was a class of oil tanker constructed and produced in large numbers in the United States during World War II. Only the T3 tankers were...
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bulk liquids Chemical tanker, a type of tanker designed to transport chemicals in bulk Oil tanker, also known as a petroleum tanker LNG carrier, a ship...
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Tank truck (redirect from Tanker truck)
tankers. Anglo American Oil introduced underground tanks and delivery tankers to the UK in 1920. Pickfords took over an oil tanker company in 1921 and soon...
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MV Prestige (redirect from Prestige (oil tanker))
The MV Prestige was an oil tanker owned by a Greek company based in Athens and operating under a Bahamian flag, that on 19 November 2002 sank off the coast...
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disposed of their oil discharges at sea. Each oil tanker of 150 gross tons and above, ship of 400 gross tons and above other than an oil tanker, and crewed...
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"Yemen's Houthis say they targeted oil tanker Marlin Luanda in Gulf of Aden". Reuters. Retrieved 29 January 2024. "Oil tanker Marlin Luanda catches fire in...
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causing an oil spill in the waters of the provinces of Antique, Batangas, Oriental Mindoro, and Palawan. En route from Bataan to Iloilo, the oil tanker was carrying...
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The Alaska-class oil tanker is a class of VLCC tankers built by National Steel and Shipbuilding Company, San Diego. The tankers are double-hulled as mandated...
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La Noumbi (section Design (as oil tanker))
Perenco. The vessel, converted from the former Finnish Aframax crude oil tanker Tempera by Keppel Corporation, will replace an older FPSO unit in the...
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Petroleum industry (redirect from Oil patch)
also known as the oil industry, includes the global processes of exploration, extraction, refining, transportation (often by oil tankers and pipelines),...
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oil washing (COW) is washing out the residue from the oil tanker using the crude oil cargo itself, after the cargo tanks have been emptied. Crude oil...
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April 1931. MV Cliona, oil tanker for Anglo Saxon Petroleum Co, launched 14 May 1931, completed 14 October 1931. SS Maracay, oil tanker for Lago Shipping Co...
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