How Oil Tankers Work | HowStuffWorks
How Oil Tankers Work. An oil tanker moves through Alaska's Prince William Sound, site of the infamous Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989. Soon after entrepreneurs in the 1850s began exploiting crude oil as a source of energy, the nascent oil industry found itself in a dilemma. How were early oil prospectors supposed to transport this "black gold ...
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