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    the 26-year-old, structurally deficient oil tanker MV Prestige, carrying 77,000 tonnes of heavy fuel oil. During a storm, it burst a tank on 13 November...
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    The MV Prestige was an oil tanker owned by a Greek company based in Athens and operating under a Bahamian flag, that on 19 November 2002 sank off the coast...
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  • George Leonard Prestige (1889-1955), English theologian Prestige (oil tanker), oil tanker MSC Prestige, a container ship USS Prestige, various American...
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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:...
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    Similarly, following the sinking of the Prestige oil tanker near Galicia, Spain, in November 2002, 77,000 tonnes of crude oil were spilled into the ocean. This...
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  • Oil tankers generally have from 8 to 12 tanks. Each tank is split into two or three independent compartments by fore-and-aft bulkheads. The tanks are...
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    tanker (or tank ship or tankship) is a ship designed to transport or store liquids or gases in bulk. Major types of tankship include the oil tanker (or...
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    The Aegean Sea tanker oil spill was a spill that occurred on 3 December 1992 when the double-bottomed Greek-flagged oil tanker, Aegean Sea, en route to...
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    The Coulombi egg tanker is a design that is aimed at reducing oil spills. It was approved by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) as an alternative...
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    company". Alfastrah.ru. Retrieved 26 September 2015. Govan, Fiona. "Prestige oil tanker sinking: Spanish court finds nobody responsible". The Telegraph....
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    successful Royal Navy submarine of World War II) and the 103,000-ton oil tanker British Admiral (once the world's largest ship) were also built in Barrow...
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  • which was smuggling crude oil from Iran to Syria under a Panamanian flag. "Philippine tanker carrying 1.4 million litres of oil capsizes off Manila". gulfnews...
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    declared a national park. However, 6 months later, the oil spill caused by the Prestige oil tanker came on its shores, except on the island of Cortegada...
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  • killed and six others are reported missing after the Comoros-flagged oil tanker Prestige Falcon sinks off Ras Madrakah in the Arabian Sea. Nine sailors are...
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  • Parks for the final cleanup of the Galician coastline following the Prestige oil tanker spill.[citation needed] The effects of the product were studied on...
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    2010. The Scottish Oil Agency Ltd was a distributing and selling organisation of Scottish Oils Ltd. A Scottish Oil Agency rail tanker is preserved at the...
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    management of the Prestige oil tanker spill - that in November 2002 had its hull damaged off the coast of Galicia, causing a part of the fuel oil it was carrying...
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    regions, causing oil spills. See Braer, Erika, Exxon Valdez, Prestige and Torrey Canyon for examples of tankers that have been involved in oil spills. Coastal...
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    Afghanistan and the war in Iraq. The ecological disaster caused by the Prestige oil tanker accident (2002–2004, possibly aggravated by the confused political...
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    Petroleum (redirect from Crude oil)
    Oil Tankers and Terminals Lead poisoning List of oil exploration and production companies List of oil fields Manure-derived synthetic crude oil Oil burden...
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