By Tanker
oil
Prevent oil spills and regulate the amount of oil that can be shipped at one time
You can purchase them on-line and have them shipped to you.
Since oil is shipped internationally, the SI standard should be used, however, in practice when oil barrels are shipped, they are most often shipped in barrels that are sized according to imperial units of capacity (ie. 42 gallons). Also common is shipping oil by tanker. The oil supplier & oil customer/s typically use units of measure that are common to them (for example: Some suppliers measure oil in liters & some customer/s measure oil in gallons). They both use standardized unit conversion methodologies to ensure shipped vs received volumes match and to resolve volume disputes.
Because some countries have lots of oil, and others have hardly any. To distribute the oil to customers, Oil companies sell oil in different places to make more money.
The oil in North Dakota is shipped to storage facilities and refineries located in Oklahoma and Louisiana. Dakota Plains leased tank cars take oil to Albany, N.Y.; Philadelphia; St. John, New Brunswick; Galveston, Texas, and Walnut Hill, Fla.
The city of Valdez in Alaska stores oil from the Alaska Pipeline while it waits to be shipped to the lower 48 states or to other destinations.
Drilling for natural gas is similar to drilling for oil, but gas must be liquefied before it can be shipped.
None obviously, look what happened to the Gulf Coast!
put it on fire then take it back to the dealer and tell him they shipped it to you burnt.
Most are shipped unoiled, and will need a few drops of oil. Check the instructions on the package.