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The worlds first successful oil tanker was built by Ludvig Nobel
Ludvig Nobel was the inventor of the oil tanker. He was a businessman and engineer who was born in Sweden on July 27, 1831.
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Normally a Tanker carries some liquid, mostly Oil, therefore the term "Oil Tanker".
MR oil tanker actually refers to Medium Range Product Tanker which is between 42,000 dwt to 59,999 dwt. There are two categories of ships in the oil tanker industry. First are the Product tankers which transport refined petroleum products like gasoline, diesel, naphtha, aviation fuel, etc. Second are the Crude carriers which transport unrefined crude oil.
It was not an oil tanker, but a drilling platform.
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The Mega Borg tanker spilled oil into the Gulf of Mexico in 1990.
Approximately how far off course was this oil tanker?
The first ships to carry mineral oil (as opposed to whale oil) were not designed particularly for oil - the oil would be carried in jars or barrels. Ludvig Nobel (brother of Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite and founder of the Nobel prize) is probably the key pioneer of designing ships specifically to carry oil. He was Swedish.