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In 1935, Socony Vacuum Oil opened the huge Mammoth Oil Port on Staten Island which had a capacity of handling a quarter of million gallons of petroleum products a year and could transship oil from ocean going tankers and river barges
Industrial, mining, and other uses of mercury have resulted in a widespread distribution in the bay, with uptake in the bay's phytoplankton and contamination of its sportfish. In January 1971, two Standard Oil tankers collided in the bay, creating an 800, 000 gallon oil spill disaster, which spurred environmental protection of the bay.
Oil spills may be due to releases of crude oil from tankers, offshore platforms, drilling rigs and wells, as well as spills of refined petroleum products ( such as gasoline, diesel ) and their by-products, heavier fuels used by large ships such as bunker fuel, or the spill of any oily refuse or waste oil.
In 1969, Humble Oil and Refining Company sent a specially fitted oil tanker, the, to test the feasibility of transporting oil via ice-breaking tankers to market.
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Oil pipelines, which run through the Islamic World and Russia, are themselves so subject to interruption, sabotage and political manipulations, that they historically have little strategic importance-if the taps are shut off in one place, tankers can simply go somewhere else.
Oil flows via pipeline from the Brent and Ninian oil fields to be loaded onto tankers at Sullom Voe.
In 1992 he was arrested in a case of theft of government property: AVEKS-Komi sent a train containing 55 cisterns ( tankers ) of diesel fuel, worth Р3. 8 million ( Roubles ), from the Ukhta Oil Refinery ( Case No. 79067 for the large-scale theft of state property ); Abramovich met the train in Moscow and resent the shipment to the Kaliningrad military base under a fake agreement, but the fuel arrived in Riga.
The British Tanker Company Limited ( BTC ) was formed in 1915, after the Anglo-Persian Oil Company decided to become a fully self-contained operation, directly owning a fleet of tankers for sea transport.
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Subsequent increases in tanker size since the dock was built has meant that the largest tankers use the Tranmere Oil Terminal and at offshore berths at Anglesey in North Wales.
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In 1972, the first oil jetty was constructed at Bharathi Dock-I capable of handling tankers up to 100, 000 DWT to handle imports of crude oil destined for the Manali Oil Refinery ( later named the Chennai Petroleum Corporation Limited ).
In 1954, Shell Oil developed the average freight rate assessment ( AFRA ) system which classifies tankers of different sizes.
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