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Supertanker AbQaiq
The commercial oil tanker AbQaiq

An oil tanker, also known as a petroleum tanker, is a ship made for the bulk transport of oil. There are two basic types of oil tankers: the crude tanker and the product tanker. Crude tankers move large quantities of unrefined crude oil from its point of extraction to refineries. Product tankers, generally much smaller, are designed to move petrochemicals from refineries to points near consuming markets.

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  • Fallsofclydehonolulu

    Falls of Clyde is the oldest surviving American tanker and the world's only surviving sail-driven oil tanker.

  • Zoroastr

    Zoroaster, the world's first tanker, delivered to the Nobel brothers in Baku, Azerbaijan.

  • Glückauf

    Glückauf grounded in heavy fog at Blue Point Beach on Fire Island.

  • COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Afscheepsteiger Tarakan 14 TMnr 10010382

    A Royal Dutch Petroleum dock in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia)

  • Hellespont Alhambra-223713 v2

    Hellespont Alhambra (now TI Asia), a ULCC TI-class supertanker, which are the largest ocean-going oil tankers in the world

  • Two bunkering tankers

    Tatiana B and Florence B, two bunkering tankers

  • Bateaux comparaison3

    Knock Nevis (1979–2010), a ULCC supertanker and the longest ship ever built.

  • AMYNTAS Donges 1 by NS

    Amyntas, a brand new ULCC inaugurated in February 2019 berthing at Donges / Saint-Nazaire (France).

  • Lightering-grain-in-bangladesh

    Tankers may carry unusual cargoes – such as grain – on their final trip to the scrapyard.

  • DoubleBottomDoubleHull

    Single hull, double bottom, and double hull ship cross sections. Green lines are watertight; black structure is not watertight

  • Tanker unloading crude oil

    Cargo flows between a tanker and a shore station by way of marine loading arms attached at the tanker's cargo manifold.

  • Maya OBO carrier 3

    Oil is pumped on and off the ship by way of connections made at the cargo manifold.

  • Oil pump on an oil tanker

    This cargo pump aboard a VLCC can move 5,000 cubic meters of product per hour.

  • Butterworth nozzle

    The nozzle of an automated tank cleaning machine

  • US Navy 050614-N-0120R-050 The conventionally powered aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) and the guided missile cruiser USS Cowpens (CG 63) receives fuel during a replenishment at sea

    HMAS Success refuels USS Kitty Hawk and USS Cowpens.

  • Maya OBO carrier 2

    The OBO-carrier Maya. The picture is showing both the cargo hold hatches used for bulk and the pipes used for oil

  • FPSO diagram

    Floating storage units, often former oil tankers, accumulate oil for tankers to retrieve.

  • OilCleanupAfterValdezSpill

    Exxon Valdez spilled 10.8 million US gallons (41,000 m3) of oil into Alaska's Prince William Sound.

  • Demonstration against oil tankers on Canadian side of Peace Arch Park, 1970

    Demonstration in Canada against oil tankers, 1970.

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