[Dranny]

Am I right or wrong to assume the worst case scenario for a 2 million barrel capacity tanker would be the total loss of the Vessel and the Load??
Or is there a more calculated method in working out the WCS

[Cool Hand Linc]

The total loss would seem to me to be a worst case senerio specific to a tanker.

Is this in reference to something specific?

I have heard some speak of how the lose of a tanker would have an on going effect because of the time required to replace it.

Tanker capacity is important for both the nations that produce and the nations that consume. The lose of income to the producing country would be a noticable loss. The lose of oil to the consuming nations would be noticed as well.

Then what ever method of loss. There would be enviromental effects. Peoples lives on board.

[Curmudgicus]

With tanker capacity being a crucial component of oil availability, is there any plan to try to find another way to move oil?

I ask because since 1991, over 200 supertankers have gone down. Two large ships go down each week even now. There may be a break point for losses that frequent.

[elroy]

Two ships each week ? Do you have any link to back this up ?

[backstop]

New Scientist had a report (2 or three years ago) on an exponential increase of rogue waves, (>25ms) which are implicated in numerous VLC losses, but I've heard nothing of this issue since then.

regards,

Backstop

[Laughs_Last]

Wikipedia: Freak_wave
New York Times: Rogue Giants at Sea
BBC: Freakwave
European Space Agency: Monster Waves
Sceince News (1996 Archive): Rouge Math

[Fergus]

http://www.bayanihan.org/html/article.p ... 3182017302

Like this! - 9,000 meter depth crushes the hull and the oil leaks out.

[Fergus]

http://www.bayanihan.org/html/article.p ... 3182017302

Like this! - 9,000 meter depth crushes the hull and the oil leaks out.

[like_the_dinosaurs]

looks like it might be fluff.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freak_waves

Allthough, if terriosts stuck the oil industry in some way(ie tankers) what would happen with supply!

[IslandCrow]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Dranny', 'A')m I right or wrong to assume the worst case scenario for a 2 million barrel capacity tanker would be the total loss of the Vessel and the Load??
Or is there a more calculated method in working out the WCS