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| Career |
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| Ordered: | ? |
| Laid down: | ? |
| Launched: | ? |
| Delivered: | 11 December 1986 |
| Fate: | "mothballed" in undisclosed Mediterranean port |
| Laid Up: | September 2002 |
| General Characteristics |
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| Displacement: | 211,469 tons |
| Length: | 300 m (987 ft) |
| Beam: | 50 m (166 ft) |
| Draft: | 20 m (64.5 ft) |
| Speed: | 16.25 knots (30 km/h) |
| Complement: | 21 crew |
| Cargo Capacity: | 1.48 million barrels (235,000 m³) of crude oil |
Exxon Valdez was the original name of an oil tanker owned by the Exxon oil company. The ship was renamed to SeaRiver Mediterranean after the March 24, 1989 oil spill in which the tanker hit Prince William Sound's Bligh Reef and spilled between 11 million and 35 million gallons of crude oil; this was the Exxon Valdez oil spill.
The vessel has an all steel construction, built by National Steel and Shipbuilding Company in San Diego. It was delivered to Exxon in December, 1986. The tanker is 300 m (987 ft) long, 50 m (166 ft) wide and 27 m (88 ft) in depth, weighing 30,000 tons empty and powered by a 31,650 shp (24 MW) diesel engine. The vessel could transport a maximum of 1.48 million barrelThe barrel is the name of several units. A barrel of crude oil or other petroleum product (abbreviated bbl) is 42 US gallons, approximately 159 litres or 35 Imperial gallons. The size originates from the use of 190 litre wine barrels in the early Pennsylvs (200,000 t) at a sustained speed of 16.25 knots (30 km/h) and was employed to transport crude oil from the Alyeska consortium's pipeline terminal in Valdez, AlaskaValdez is a city located in Valdez-Cordova Census Area, Alaska. As of the 2000 census, the population of the city is 4,036. Geography Valdez is located at 61°7'23" North, 146°18'19" West (61. 122947, -146. Valdez is located at the head of a deep fjord in to the lower 48 states of the United StatesThe United States of America also referred to as the United States U. America ¹ or the States is a federal republic in central North America, stretching from the Atlantic in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west. It shares land borders with Canada in.
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