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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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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tanker MT Terra Nova (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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List of tank truck explosions (redirect from 2021 Sierra Leone Oil tanker collision)
scores injured in Congo oil tanker explosion". CNN International. 3 July 2010. Retrieved 3 July 2010. "DR Congo oil tanker blaze 'kills 270'". BBC News...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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spills from oil tankers and of the amount of oil released per oil tanker spill. In 1992, MARPOL was amended and made it mandatory for large tankers (5,000...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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"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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Delta Tankers is a Greek shipping company, highly active in the suezmax and VLCC sectors. Delta Tankers ltd is the manager of the crude oil tanker Bouboulina...
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Seawise Giant (category Oil tankers)
tanker was purchased by First Olsen Tankers, renamed Knock Nevis, and converted into a permanently moored storage tanker in the Qatar Al Shaheen Oil Field...
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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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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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which was smuggling crude oil from Iran to Syria under a Panamanian flag. "Philippine tanker carrying 1.4 million litres of oil capsizes off Manila". gulfnews...
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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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Petroleum industry (redirect from Oil patch)
as the oil industry or the oil patch, includes the global processes of exploration, extraction, refining, transportation (often by oil tankers and pipelines)...
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rebels damage Panama-flagged oil tanker in Red Sea". Voice of America. 27 April 2024. Retrieved 27 April 2024. "Oil tanker damaged in Houthi missile strike"...
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