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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: crude tankers and product tankers. [ 1 ] Crude tankers move large quantities of unrefined crude oil from its point of extraction to refineries. [ 1 ]
Crude 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 is pumped back and preheated in the slop tanks, then sprayed back via high pressure nozzles in the cargo tanks onto the walls of the tank. Due to the sticky nature of the crude oil, the oil ...
It facilitates storage and blending of gasoline, oil, and bio fuels. An oil depot in Kowloon, Hong Kong around the mid-1980s. The depot was redeveloped into a residential area Laguna City in the late 80s and early 90s. An oil terminal (also called a tank farm, tankfarm, oil installation or oil depot) is an industrial facility for the storage of ...
Oil refineries are typically large, sprawling industrial complexes with extensive piping running throughout, carrying streams of fluids between large chemical processing units, such as distillation columns. In many ways, oil refineries use many different technologies and can be thought of as types of chemical plants.
Oil spill. An oil spill is the release of a liquid petroleum hydrocarbon into the environment, especially the marine ecosystem, due to human activity, and is a form of pollution. The term is usually given to marine oil spills, where oil is released into the ocean or coastal waters, but spills may also occur on land.
Oil train near La Crosse, Wisconsin. Petroleum transport is the transportation of petroleum and derivatives such as gasoline (petrol). [1] Petroleum products are transported via rail cars, trucks, tanker vessels, and pipeline networks. The method used to move the petroleum products depends on the volume that is being moved and its destination.
Hawthorne Army Depot (HWAD) is a U.S. Army Joint Munitions Command ammunition storage depot located near the town of Hawthorne in western Nevada in the United States. It is directly south of Walker Lake. The depot covers 147,000 acres (59,000 ha) or 226 sq. mi. and has 600,000 square feet (56,000 m 2) storage space in 2,427 bunkers. HWAD is the ...
A small T1 tanker was used for small ports and near shore. The larger T3 tanker was use a fleet oiler. [37] After the war these tankers were used commercially for decades, and many were sold on the international market. [37] In this period, the Worldscale was introduced to determine freight tariffs.