Oil tanker facts for kids
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.
- Bill Willis. Supertankers
- Intertanko - the society of International Tanker Operators
- [1] - Ship photos of tankers, ULCCs, VLCCs, barges
Images for kids
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Falls of Clyde is the oldest surviving American tanker and the world's only surviving sail-driven oil tanker.
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Glückauf grounded in heavy fog at Blue Point Beach on Fire Island.
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A Royal Dutch Petroleum dock in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia)
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Knock Nevis (1979–2010), a ULCC supertanker and the longest ship ever built.
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Exxon Valdez spilled 10.8 million US gallons (41,000 m3) of oil into Alaska's Prince William Sound.
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In Spanish: Petrolero para niños