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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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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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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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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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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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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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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