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    Fuel oils include heavy fuel oil (bunker fuel), marine fuel oil (MFO), furnace oil (FO), gas oil (gasoil), heating oils (such as home heating oil),...
    43 KB (4,931 words) - 15:53, 25 February 2024
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    Heavy fuel oil (HFO) is a category of fuel oils of a tar-like consistency. Also known as bunker fuel, or residual fuel oil, HFO is the result or remnant...
    20 KB (2,320 words) - 22:24, 27 January 2024
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    A replenishment oiler or replenishment tanker is a naval auxiliary ship with fuel tanks and dry cargo holds which can supply both fuel and dry stores during...
    15 KB (1,628 words) - 18:55, 10 March 2024
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    Petroleum (redirect from Medium fuel oil)
    exploration and extraction of oil disturb the surrounding marine environment. Crude oil and refined fuel spills from tanker ship accidents have damaged natural...
    132 KB (14,542 words) - 10:13, 3 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Oil spill
    and diesel fuel) and their by-products, heavier fuels used by large ships such as bunker fuel, or the spill of any oily refuse or waste oil.[citation needed]...
    89 KB (9,744 words) - 14:34, 5 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fossil fuel
    A fossil fuel is a hydrocarbon-containing material such as coal, oil, and natural gas, formed naturally in the Earth's crust from the remains of dead...
    39 KB (5,185 words) - 18:41, 1 May 2024
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    net carbon dioxide emissions. Oil-fuelled plants may be converted to natural gas to lower operating cost. Heavy fuel oil was once a significant source...
    52 KB (5,819 words) - 20:40, 20 May 2024
  • Kerosene (redirect from Stove oil)
    aviation fuel standardized at −47 °C (−53 °F). 1-K-grade kerosene freezes around −40 °C (−40 °F, 233 K). The process of distilling crude oil/petroleum...
    52 KB (6,198 words) - 02:48, 28 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Henry J. Kaiser-class replenishment oiler
    oiler. One ship, operated by the United States from 1987 to 1996, was sold to Chile in 2009 and commissioned into the Chilean Navy in 2010. Two ships...
    15 KB (900 words) - 18:28, 17 April 2024
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    small number of experimental civil nuclear ships have been built. Compared to oil- or coal-fuelled ships, nuclear propulsion offers the advantage of...
    36 KB (4,131 words) - 19:20, 4 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Oil terminal
    An oil terminal (also called a tank farm, tankfarm, oil installation or oil depot) is an industrial facility for the storage of oil, petroleum and petrochemical...
    16 KB (1,546 words) - 00:55, 12 February 2024
  • speed for a long time with little regard for fuel expended, an important consideration for oil-fueled ships. "Flank speed" is exclusively an American phrase...
    3 KB (373 words) - 04:24, 14 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Peak oil
    The primary concern of peak oil is that global transportation heavily relies upon the use of gasoline and diesel fuel. Switching transportation to electric...
    105 KB (10,860 words) - 22:12, 5 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Oil tanker
    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:...
    84 KB (8,940 words) - 18:10, 2 May 2024
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    is situated on the south bank of the Manchester Ship Canal, which is used to transport seaborne oil for refining and chemicals for Essar and Shell. Stanlow...
    19 KB (1,900 words) - 04:19, 20 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Alternative fuel
    infrastructure. 'alternative fuels' means fuels or power sources which serve, at least partly, as a substitute for fossil oil sources in the energy supply...
    51 KB (5,587 words) - 10:09, 11 April 2024
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    is being hindered by fossil fuel subsidies. Many countries are shutting down coal-fired power stations, and fossil-fuelled electricity generation is thought...
    94 KB (8,158 words) - 18:47, 5 June 2024
  • fuel oils, crude oil is pumped from the ground and is shipped via oil tanker or a pipeline to an oil refinery. There, it is converted from crude oil to...
    13 KB (1,666 words) - 00:21, 31 May 2024
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    refined into products such as gasoline (petrol), diesel fuel, asphalt base, fuel oils, heating oil, kerosene, liquefied petroleum gas and petroleum naphtha...
    103 KB (10,449 words) - 05:58, 5 June 2024
  • have to fulfil in case of an oil spill. General information about the ship Procedures to contain the discharge of the oil into the sea in accordance to...
    4 KB (543 words) - 22:03, 26 August 2023
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