Sentences with phrase «small oil tankers»
While it is true that small oil tankers have moved surplus oil out of Second Narrows for decades, it has never been done on this scale — or using ships that exceed the dimensions of what the Port Metro Vancouver (PMV) previously considered safe.
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In 1952, Bernie and a small crew braved brutal elements off the coast of Cape Cod to search for a stranded oil tanker that had been broken in half by the storm.
When an oil tanker shears in half during a nor» easter off a New England coast in 1952, Bernie Webber (played by Chris Pine) and his small crew decide to brave the storm and go rescue the men abandoned on the tanker.
Modern double hull oil tankers are not as susceptible to spills, but the many small ships (especially low budget, unlicensed ships) carrying goods of all types can and do run aground, causing smaller spills.
Historically, about half of the crude oil that comes out of the Trans - Alaska Pipeline System has been shipped by tanker to refineries in California (the other half is sent to refineries in Washington state, with a much smaller fraction sent to foreign markets).
But as Exxon knows through the Exxon Valdez oil spill, in which the oil tanker veered off course into a rocky reef while trying to avoid small icebergs in Alaska's Prince William Sound in 1989, the presence of even a little ice makes navigation treacherous.