* 2007 – The bulk carrier M / V New Flame collides with the oil tanker Torm Gertrud at the southernmost tip of Gibraltar, ending up partially submerged.

* 1991 – Italian ferry Moby Prince collides with an oil tanker in dense fog off Livorno, Italy killing 140.

A tanker off the coast of Florida reported seeing an explosion and observing a widespread oil slick when fruitlessly searching for survivors.

As of 1998, the merchant marine had one oil tanker ( 1, 000 GRT or over ) totalling 1, 200 GRT.

* 1976 – The oil tanker runs aground near Nantucket, Massachusetts, causing one of the worst marine oil spills in history.

* 1992 – The Greek oil tanker Aegean Sea, carrying 80, 000 tonnes of crude oil, runs aground in a storm while approaching La Coruña, Spain, and spills much of its cargo.

Diesel generator on an oil tanker

* 1987 – History's worst peacetime sea disaster, when the passenger ferry Doña Paz sinks after colliding with the oil tanker Vector 1 in the Tablas Strait in the Philippines, killing an estimated 4, 000 people ( 1, 749 official ).

The Exxon Valdez oil spill occurred in Prince William Sound, Alaska, on March 24, 1989, when Exxon Valdez, an oil tanker bound for Long Beach, California struck Prince William Sound's Bligh Reef and spilled of crude oil.

* London Enterprise, an oil tanker built for London & Overseas Freighters in 1950 and scrapped c. 1974

* London Enterprise, a Panamax oil tanker built for London & Overseas Freighters in 1983

* 1998 – An oil tanker train collides with a freight train in Yaoundé, Cameroon, spilling fuel oil.

Harmonielehre ( 1984 – 85 ): Inspired by a dream of an oil tanker taking flight out of San Francisco Bay and also by Arnold Schoenberg's book, Harmonielehre ( Theory of Harmony ).

barge carrier 3, bulk 313, cargo 89, chemical tanker 167, combination bulk 16, combination ore / oil 32, container 318, liquefied gas 99, multi-functional large-load carrier 4, passenger 23, petroleum tanker 302, refrigerated cargo 69, roll on / roll off 20, short-sea passenger 3, specialized tanker 13, vehicle carrier 42

* Limburg ( tanker ), a French oil tanker bombed off Yemen

: bulk 440, cargo 334, chemical tanker 54, combination bulk 10, combination ore / oil 12, container 75, liquefied gas 4, livestock carrier 3, multi-functional large-load carrier 1, passenger 6, passenger / cargo 1, petroleum tanker 270, refrigerated cargo 39, roll on / roll off 45, short-sea passenger 9, specialised tanker 3, vehicle carrier 17

The Ministry of Transport was created in 1905 during the Presidency of Rafael Reyes under the name of Ministerio de Obras Públicas y Transporte or Ministry of Public Works and Transport with the main function of taking care of national assets issues, including mines, oil ( fuel ), patents and trade marks, railways, roads, bridges, national buildings and land without landowners.

The campaign is focused on slowing, and eventually ending, the world's consumption of oil ; with activist activities taking place against companies that pursue oil drilling as a venture.

Economic growth is largely supported by oil extraction activities, although massive diversification is taking place.

Sudan's primary resources are agricultural, but oil production and export are taking on greater importance since October 2000.

An oil tanker going from Saudi Arabia to the United States has 2, 700 miles longer to go when taking the route south of Africa rather than the canal.

Many nations are taking direct steps to protect the ecology of the taiga by prohibiting logging, mining, oil and gas production, and other forms of development.

In 1973 Venezuela voted to nationalize its oil industry outright, effective 1 Jan. 1976, with Petróleos de Venezuela ( PDVSA ) taking over and presiding over a number of holding companies ; in subsequent years, Venezuela built a vast refining and marketing system in the US and Europe.

Criticizing immigration and taking advantage of the economic crisis striking France and the world since the 1973 oil crisis, Le Pen's party managed to increase its support in the 1980s, starting in the municipal elections of 1983.

The musicians also resented Van Vliet for taking complete credit for composition and arranging when the musicians themselves pieced together most of the songs from taped fragments or impressionistic directions such as " Play it like a bat being dragged out of oil and it's trying to survive, but it's dying from asphyxiation.

Finds of Mediterranean oil and wine jars show that Sub-Roman Britain was not the isolated outpost it was previously considered to be, for an extensive trade in high-value goods was taking place at the time with the Mediterranean region.

Oil was added to the list of cargoes carried by the canal, with bulk oil carriers taking fuel to storage tanks sited to the south of Gloucester.

Previously, the amount of water contaminating biodiesel has been difficult to measure by taking samples, since water and oil separate.

It is then used by Islamic extremists in an attempt to destroy the world's oil supplies, thereby taking away the technological advantage of the United States.

New Zealand flax seed oil has high levels of Omega-3, and provides an alternative to taking fish oil.

This effect was found only in mothers taking cod liver oil, not in mothers taking multivitamin supplements.

Pregnant women may want to consider consulting a doctor when taking cod liver oil because of the high amount of natural forms of vitamin A such as retinol.

Some urge caution when taking cod liver oil and other fish-based supplements since they may contain elevated levels of toxins such as mercury and PCBs found in fish.

More recently, " extended drain ", " BMW longlife " and similar oils have arisen, whereby, taking Volkswagen Group vehicles, a petrol engine can go up to 2 years or 30, 000 km (~ 18, 600 mi ), and a diesel engine can go up to 2 years or 50, 000 km (~ 31, 000 mi ) — before requiring an oil change.

After negotiations for higher oil royalties failed, on 15 March and 20 March 1951, the Iranian Majlis and Senate voted to nationalize the British-owned and operated AIOC, taking control of Iran's oil industry.

The new cars launched in the wake of the oil crisis were considerably more economical than the traditional saloons they were taking the place of, and even attracted a considerable number of buyers who would have otherwise chosen cars in the next sector.

Finally, at Ye Olde Gasse Filling Station on Avocado Avenue, they learned that their man, having paused to get oil for his car, had asked about the route to San Diego.

In an essentially static system, an oil cannot be replaced by water on a surface unless the interfacial tensions of the water phase are reduced by a surface-active agent.

Whereas the usual organic surface-active agent is strongly sorbed at oil - water interfaces, the highly charged ions are most strongly sorbed at interfaces between water and insoluble materials exhibiting an ionic structure ( see Table 26-2 on p. 1678 ).

( It makes no real difference that Braque's collage is on paper and eked out in charcoal, while Picasso's is on canvas and eked out in oil.

Later the doctor used mineral oil on the burns.

Not included was the value of seed oil in paints and varnishes or the value of the coffee and chocolate industries that are based on imported seed or seed products.

Traces of oil on green tissue??

Buzz had on a Hawaiian shirt and was carrying some sun-tan oil and dark glasses.

Despite extensive oil and gas resources, diamonds, hydroelectric potential, and rich agricultural land, Angola remains poor, and a third of the population relies on subsistence agriculture.

Angolan-Nigerian relations are primarily based on their roles as oil exporting nations.

# Various basic foodstuffs such as rice, sugar, wheat, cooking oil and butter ( the Salex Group enjoys a de facto monopoly on imports of wheat, sugar, flour, butter and cooking oil.

The Vienna amber factories, which use pale amber to manufacture pipes and other smoking tools, turn it on a lathe and polish it with whitening and water or with rotten stone and oil.

Agrippina landing at Brundisium with the ashes of Germanicus, ( 1768, Benjamin West, oil on canvas ). In art, Agrippina has served as a symbol of marital devotion and fidelity.

Christ with Mary and Martha, oil on wood, 125 x 118 cmKunsthistorisches Museum

Conventional oil and gas fields are found throughout the province on an axis running from the northwest to the southeast.

" The Musician ", oil painting | oil on canvas by Tamara de Lempicka, 1929, stolen in 1 May 2009 from the Scheringa Museum of Realist Art.

" The Abadan oil refinery was featured on the reverse side of Iran's 100-rial banknotes printed in 1965 and from 1971 to 1973.

In one year, the farm yielded over $ 1, 000, 000 in cash dividends, and petroleum from oil wells on the property sold profitably.

If the sick person wishes to receive the sacrament of penance, it is preferable that the priest make himself available for this during a previous visit ; but if the sick person must confess during the celebration of the sacrament of anointing, this confession replaces the penitential rite A passage of Scripture is read, and the priest may give a brief explanation of the reading, a short litany is said, and the priest lays his hands on the head of the sick person and then says a prayer of thanksgiving over the already blessed oil or, if necessary, blesses the oil himself.

The Catechism of the Episcopal Church of the United States of America includes Unction of the Sick as among the " other sacramental rites " and it states that unction can be done with oil or simply with laying on of hands.

The earliest painted Portrait of the Artist Holding a Thistle ( Albrecht Dürer ) | Self-Portrait ( 1493 ) by Albrecht Dürer, oil, originally on vellum ( Louvre, Paris )