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  2. Tidewater Oil Company - Wikipedia

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    Its various commercial brands for selling petroleum and gasoline products / fuel included Tydol, Flying A, and Veedol. In 2011, Veedol was sold by British Petroleum to Tidewater India. Now it is part of Andrew Yule and Company's Indian group and manufactures automotive oil for the Indian market on the sub-continent of South Asia.

  3. Fuel container - Wikipedia

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    Various fuel cans in Germany, including red plastic containers and green metal jerrycans. One US gallon (3.79 litres) of gas in an F-style can A group of 25 kg (55 lb) liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) cylinders in Malta. A fuel container is a container such as a steel can, bottle, drum, etc. for transporting, storing, and dispensing various fuels.

  4. Fuel bladder - Wikipedia

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    Standard fuel bladder tanks sizes range from 100-US-gallon (380 L) to 200,000-US-gallon (760,000 L) capacities and larger. Custom fuel storage bladders and cells are available, although at sizes exceeding 50,000 US gallons (190,000 L) there is an increased spill risk.

  5. Architecture of the oil tanker - Wikipedia

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    An oil tanker's inert gas system is one of the most important parts of its design. [18] Fuel oil itself is very difficult to ignite, however its hydrocarbon vapors are explosive when mixed with air in certain concentrations. [19] The purpose of the system is to create an atmosphere inside tanks in which the hydrocarbon oil vapors cannot burn. [18]

  6. USS Guyandot - Wikipedia

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    USS Guyandot (AOG-16) was a gasoline tanker acquired by the U.S. Navy as Veedol No. 2 [note 1] from Tidewater Oil to serve as a gasoline tanker. The tanker served in Mediterranean operations often under air attack.

  7. Associated Oil Company - Wikipedia

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    In the year 1900, a pipeline salesman by the name of W.S. Porter [2] [4] convinced the presidents of the five largest companies in the Kern River Oil Field of California to enter into an agreement [2] [4] to turn over their oil interests to form a new company in exchange for stocks and bonds for the appraised value of their properties. [4]

  8. Can collecting - Wikipedia

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    Cans can come in different sizes; [15] soda cans can be given or bought in small (sometimes called "mini") sizes, given typically to patients and visitors at hospitals and sometimes to passengers at commercial airline flights, while, on the other hand, petrol companies have sometimes sold very large oil cans. [16] The size of the can can also ...

  9. Jerrycan - Wikipedia

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    A jerrycan or jerrican (also styled jerry can or jerri can) [1] is a fuel container made from pressed steel (and more recently, high density polyethylene). It was designed in Germany in the 1930s for military use to hold 20 litres (4.4 imp gal; 5.3 US gal) of fuel, and saw widespread use by both Germany and the Allies during the Second World War .