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	Supertanker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Newer tankers are "double-hulled", with a space between the hull and the storage tanks, to reduce the risk of a spill in the event that the hull is breached.
		The European Union has similar legislation requiring all tankers entering their waters to be double-hulled by 2010.
		In "single-hulled" tankers, the hull is also the wall of the oil tanks, and any breach will result in an oil spill.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Supertanker (371 words)

	Double-hulled tanker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A double-hulled tanker is a large tanker ship used for transporting liquids (usually petroleum).
		Double-hulled tankers were required after the Exxon Valdez oil spill.
		The ship has two hulls to prevent the liquid cargo from spilling; if the outer hull is breached, the inner hull keeps the transported substance in place.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Double-hulled_tanker (110 words)

	Thank you, Mr
		In 1997, a barge collided with a double hulled tanker in the Port of Lake Charles.
		In 1990, Congress mandated double hulls on all newly constructed oil tankers and specified a precise retirement date for all single hulled tankers based on their age and weight at the time of enactment of OPA-90.
		In 1996, a double hulled tanker off the coast of France ran aground puncturing the outer hull in several places, but none of its oil cargo was spilled.
	www.house.gov /transportation/cgmt/hearing/06-29-99/cbrown.html (1401 words)

	January 2003 - Open Encyclopedia
		The double-hulled tanker freed itself from the wreck with the rising tide and sailed a mile off to check for leakage.
		The prefect of Aquitaine reported a slick from the tanker is 50 kilometers (30 standard miles) from the coast.
		The Turkish-registered tanker Vicky, with 70,000 tonnes of diesel cargo, struck the wreck of the sunken auto carrier Tricolor off the coast of Dunkirk, France.
	open-encyclopedia.com /January_2003 (3047 words)

	365e954a.html
		Tanker spills in the late 1980s brought around a reluctant industry and equally reluctant regulators to impose double hulls.
		The tanker was reportedly registered in the Bahamas, was managed by a Liberian company based in Athens [Greece] and was chartered by a Russian subsidiary based in Switzerland - - a bewildering maze that sometimes suggests efforts to avoid stringent regulation.
		However, the ship was said to be in full compliance with industry standards for older tankers That record should surely raise red flags as to the effectiveness of the industry oversight.
	www.help-for-you.com /news/Nov2002/scripts/365e954a.html (1217 words)

	Newhouse B1
		In Louisiana in October 1997, a double hull saved the tanker Guardian from a spill after it collided with a towboat pushing a pair of tank barges on the Calcasieu River near Lake Charles.
		Double-hull tankers accounted for about 2 percent of the fleet that sailed into U.S. waters in 1990.
		The design is most effective when a tanker is moving slowly and runs into a small object, such as an anchor or the edge of a wharf, or slides onto a soft bank such as the one along the Mississippi River.
	www.newhousenews.com /archive/story1b121100.html (1327 words)

	Norwegian chemical tanker damaged in collision, no pollution
		The double-hulled tanker, Bow Fagus, was on its way from Rotterdam, Netherlands, to Tallinn, Estonia, and not carrying any cargo, Odfjell said.
		Odfjell is also the owner of the chemical tanker Bow Eagle, which was involved in a collision with a French fishing boat off France's Atlantic coast in August in which four sailors died.
		A Norwegian tanker damaged in a collision in the Oresund Strait between Denmark and Sweden on Thursday was taking on water but there was no risk of pollution, the company that owns the ship said.
	www.spacedaily.com /2002/021121150044.z6f3ey08.html (224 words)

	GN Online: Galapagos spill intensifies tanker safety debate
		"I find it strange that such a profitable company can't afford a double-hulled tanker," said one London tanker broker, noting that Wednesday Exxon announced record profits of $16.9 billion.
		ExxonMobil's decision this week to charter two single-hulled tankers for five years apiece, despite being offered double-hulled alternatives, appeared to fly in the face of such wisdom.
		The wisdom of double-hulls for tankers has become enshrined in the laws of OPA 90, passed by the United States in the wake of the Exxon Valdez crude spill, which destroyed wildlife and fish stocks in Anchorage, Alaska in 1989.
	www.gulf-news.com /Articles/print.asp?ArticleID=7965 (604 words)

	Tankers and Spills
		A double hulled tanker has a void, or empty, space of several feet between the hull and tanks.
		Large tankers can carry as much as 2,000,000 barrels of oil, and are so large that they may load and discharge at off-shore platforms, because they are simply too large toenter a port.
		Double bottoms are bounded on top by the bottom of the cargo holds, and below by the ships hull, while wing tanks are on the ships sides.
	www.spectacle.org /196/gross.html (1500 words)

	Current Articles - 6
		Congress and an international treaty organization responded by mandating that all new tankers be built with double hulls, providing a 9-foot buffer between the oil and the sea.
		The fact that single-hulled tankers are still the backbone of the Alaska crude-oil trade a decade later is a thorn to environmentalists.
		Oil companies are asking the Coast Guard and Congress to allow older single-hulled tankers to stay in service another five years beyond their 25-year limit, under certain loading conditions.
	www.uiowa.edu /~c07w180d/current_articles/ca_article6.html (2124 words)

	Alaska Journal of CommercePhillips christens second double-hulled tanker 03/11/01
		A unit of Phillips, Polar Tankers, unveiled the new double-hulled tanker in New Orleans.
		The Polar Resolution was constructed by Polar Tankers at the Litton Avondale shipyard in New Orleans.
		Millennium Class tankers are the first tankers to be built to haul Alaska oil since passage of the federal Oil Pollution Act of 1990.
	www.alaskajournal.com /stories/031101/loc_supertanker.shtml (274 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Europe / Cruise ship, oil tanker collide in Spain
		The tanker was heading for a refinery in nearby Algeciras.
		The tanker was carrying 139,000 tons of crude oil.
		A cruise ship carrying some 500 people collided Sunday with an oil tanker in fog-shrouded waters off southern Spain, causing damage to both vessels but no injuries or environmental damage, officials said.
	www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2004/09/26/cruise_ship_oil_tanker_collide_in_spain (221 words)

	Supertanker leaking oil Greenpeace International
		The explosion that ripped through the double hulled oil tanker late Sunday produced a gapping hole that spilled as much as 8,000 tonnes of crude oil producing slicks that are visible from the coast of Yemen.
		The super tanker was carrying almost 400,000 barrels of oil as it slowed down to bring on board a mooring pilot being delivered by boat.
		The French company that owns the essel, and the French government, say it was a terrorist attack, the Yemen authorities say there was a fire first, which caused the explosion.
	www.greenpeace.org /international/news/supertanker-leaking-oil (446 words)

	DOUBLE EAGLE-CLASS TANKER TAKES FLIGHTNEWPORT NEWS SHIPBUILDING COMPARES ITS NEW COMMERCIAL TANKER VENTURE WITH THE BALD EAGLE DURING CEREMONIES TO CHRISTEN THE FIRST COMMERCIAL SHIP IT HAS BUILT IN 15 YEARS.
		A double hull adds another layer of steel between the oil and the water, so that there likely won't be a spill if the tanker collides with a rock or another vessel.
		Fricks' comments came Wednesday at the christening of the American Progress, a Double Eagle tanker that Newport News Shipbuilding constructed for Mobil Corp. The tanker is the first commercial ship the yard has delivered since 1981, and the first of nine Double Eagles the shipyard is building for three buyers.
		Double Eagle refers to the bald eagle, the symbol of the United States, which, after years on the brink of extinction, has been brought back with careful management and sound planning.
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1997/vp970911/09110737.htm (530 words)

	Double Hulled Oil Tankers
		These Double Hulls are not the dream of a wayward ship builder.
		It has also been proven that there is a direct correlation between age and the number of accidents, with tankers over 15 years reporting the majority of accidents.
		There are 7,030 maritime oil tankers in current operation.
	www2.ic.edu /cochran/ClassPages/205Spring03/Lappe/LappeWebsite.html (1378 words)

	Ladywildlifes News 1
		MOre than 764,000 gallons of oil spilled after a double hulled tanker carrying 9.7 million gallons of oil and a freighter crashed in international waters between easter Denmark and NOrthwest Germany.
		Both the tanker Baltic Carrier and the Cypriot sugar freighter Tern remained afloat Friday, and the leak from the tanker was stemmed.
		A spoke mans for the InterOrion Navigation, the Hamburg Germany based company that owns the tanker, said the vessel had problems with steering and radar.
	ladywildlife.com /animal/newspage21.html (523 words)

	Chevron redubs ship named for Bush aide / Condoleezza Rice drew too much attention
		The double-hulled, Bahamian-registered oil tanker carrying the moniker of Bush's national security adviser was renamed the Altair Voyager, after a star, Gorell said.
		The unannounced decision to rechristen the tanker was made by Chevron officials in late April, after "we had been in discussions with (Rice's) office," said Gorell.
		The tanker's name also raised more serious questions of possible conflict of interest for Rice because Chevron does business on six continents and 25 countries and has been sued for alleged human rights abuses in Nigeria.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/05/05/MN223743.DTL (620 words)

	Double Wrapped
		Simply put, a double-hulled tanker is a ship equipped with a hull within a hull; that is, a double skin of steel separated by a distance of 2 to 3.5 meters, depending on a ship's size.
		All three of Hvide's double-hulled tankers were built under the auspices of the U.S. Maritime Administration's Title XI Program.
		ARCO Marine drew on its own experience operating a tanker fleet in Alaskan waters since that state's pipeline opened in 1978 to develop double-hulled tankers that could withstand 30 years of service.
	www.memagazine.org /backissues/january99/features/doublewrap/doublewrap.html (2552 words)

	Capps (CA23) - Press Release - Capps Introduces Oil Tanker Safety Legislation
		Current law already requires double hulls on all new tankers, and establishes a phase-out schedule for existing single-hulled vessels.
		Requiring double-hulled tankers is the surest way to protect against the environmental and economic havoc brought on by these terrible accidents.
		Shifting tankers away from near shore waters and enhancing the predictability of their locations will reduce collisions and the threat to National Marine Sanctuaries, reefs, and smaller commercial or recreational vessels.
	www.house.gov /apps/list/press/ca23_capps/pr030224oilpresser.html (650 words)

	Conoco’s Double-Hulled Tankers
		Almost two years ago, the outer hull of the Guardian, another Conoco double-hulled tanker, was rammed by a barge flotilla," he added.
		A seventh double-hulled tanker is nearing completion and will be delivered before the end of the year.
		Five of the state-of-the-art vessels operate in U.S. waters while the sixth is used as a shuttle tanker in the North Sea.
	www.marinetalk.com /articles_HTML/124144T.html (290 words)

	Archive
		In addition, Vopak Barging Europe has a fleet of 11 double-hulled tankers with coated tanks and a total loading capacity of 20,413 tonnes.
		With the completion of the Vopak.Einstein and the sister vessel which will be put into use later this year, Vopak Barging Europe (VBE) will have a fleet, including charter vessels, of 19 double-hulled stainless steel tankers varying from 1,400 to 3,550 tonnes with a total loading capacity of 43,000 tonnes.
		The new stainless steel chemicals tanker which is now being put into use is the first of two sister vessels which Vopak Barging Europe commissioned Breko BV/Scheepswerf Slob to build.
	www.vopak.com /press/page_pageContent.php?page=/press_releases/archive/vopak/vopak_2000/vopak_287.html (471 words)

	Petrolimex
		It is a double bottom, double- hulled tanker with a speed of 14.5 knot.
		The tanker is worth over $20.6 million, 10% of which is for Petrolimex’s account, the remaining is provided by Vietnam Industrial and Commercial Bank (ICB) on a loan basis.
		Petrolimex opted for a secondhand tanker because of the moderate upfront investment, competitive freight, quick investment return, and suitable with Vietnamese crew.
	www.petrolimex.com.vn /english/tintuc6.htm (197 words)

	Greek oil tanker runs aground in Danish waters
		No leak has so far been found on the double-hulled tanker, which was put into circulation only last February, according to Danish authorities who sent a coastguard team and an anti-pollution ship to the site.
		The tanker had sailed from Lithuania and was bound for the Mediterranean island of Malta.
		The 228-metre (500-foot) tanker called the "Fotini Lady" grounded at 2:00 pm (1200 GMT) near Hatter Rev, east of the island of Samsoe, after straying outside of a navigation channel 700 metres (yards) wide, the navy said.
	www.turkishpress.com /news.asp?id=29131 (278 words)

	CG & MT Subcommittee Schedule
		Potential weaknesses of the double hull technology include reduced vessel stability due to a higher cargo center of gravity, more rigorous construction and maintenance requirements than single hulled vessels, the possible accumulation of explosive gasses in the void bottom, and more complex salvage procedures in the event of an inner hull breach.
		According to the National Research Council’s study “Double-Hull Tanker Legislation”, the estimated increase in the cost of building and operating a double-hull fleet of the same size and composition as the tanker fleet in existence on April 1, 1996, is approximately $30 billion worldwide over a 20 year period.
		In the international trades, there are approximately 3000 oil tankers, and approximately 27% of the Dead Weight Tonnage of that fleet is equipped with double hulls today.
	www.house.gov /transportation/cgmt/hearing/06-29-99/06-29-99memo.html (1670 words)

	Alexander's Gas & Oil Connections - Phillips' first millennium class tanker sails into Port of Valdez
		The new millennium class tankers are the first-ever crude oil tankers operating under the US flag to combine double hulls, independent engine rooms, redundant propulsion and twin-steering systems, a separate bow thruster, and state-of-the-art navigation systems.
		The millennium class tankers are being built to meet and/or exceed existing and proposed environmental regulations and have set new standards for innovation and environmental protection.
		The millennium class tankers are the first crude oil carriers being built specifically for the Alaskan trade in compliance with the Federal Oil Pollution Act of 1990.
	www.gasandoil.com /goc/company/cnn13375.htm (576 words)

	Homeland Defence to Give Boost to Northrop
		Avondale expects to deliver the 895-foot-long double-hulled tanker 30 weeks after work started on it.
		During the first four years of the double-hulled tanker construction program, construction delays and other problems forced Avondale's parent, Northrop Grumman Corp., and its predecessor to take $208 million in write-offs to cover losses from the work.
		A spokeswoman for Polar Tankers, the owner of the vessels, declined to comment on the work at the shipyard, and she said executives from the ConocoPhillips subsidiary were unavailable for comment.
	www.northropgrumman.com /news/080904_avondale_tp.html (2092 words)

	Big US Oil Companies Have Found Cracks In The Tanker Regulations Inspired By The Exxon Valdez...
		Not one new double-hulled tanker has been added to the Alaska route since the Exxon Valdez disaster.
		Double hulls radically reduce oil spillage in a tanker collision, grounding or other accident.
		In the 500 trips, the tankers were barely 40 kilometres off the long B.C. coast; they then swung close to Victoria, in the Juan de Fuca Strait, en route to Seattle.
	www.commondreams.org /views/072000-105.htm (906 words)

	Classroom Energy
		Consider the October 31, 1997 incident in which a Conoco double-hulled tanker, the Guardian, was rammed by a barge as it carried more than a half-million barrels of crude oil off Louisiana.
		Although the barge ripped a 400-square-foot horizontal gash in the steel outer hull of the Guardian, not one drop of oil made it into the water, thanks to the ship’s double-hulled construction.
		Part of their silence results from the many industry safeguards; the only time we hear about oil tankers is when they spill oil, and they rarely do that these days because of design improvements made in the past 15 years.
	www.classroom-energy.org /teachers/resources/journey.html (2277 words)

	Business Wire: Newest Double-Hulled Tanker Begins Service For ... @ HighBeam Research
		Newest Double-Hulled Tanker Begins Service For ConocoPhillips Subsidiary.
		Endeavour Class vessels have double hulls with 10 feet of space between the inner and outer hulls, two independent engine rooms, redundant propulsion and twin steering systems, a bow thruster and state-of-the-art navigation systems.
		One final Endeavour Class tanker is currently under construction at the Avondale shipyard and is scheduled for delivery in 2005.
	highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:122868563&refid=ink_tptd_np (338 words)

	Disaster fears as tanker splits (Off of the Coast of Spain portugal )
		Double hull tankers may cut the risk, but they don't eliminate it.
		There was a large spill involving a double hull tanker about 8-10 years ago in Europe.
		We need to make sure the ships handling this kind of Cargo are double hulled.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/791786/posts (2042 words)

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