“Super” Tankers

These images will give you a sense of the enormous size of the Super Tankers moving through the Straits of Hormuz. 

The first image shows a super tanker at Ras Laffan in Qatar being filled with LNG.

There are two types of LNG tankers used in Qatar: Q-Max with a capacity of 5.6 billion cubic feet of LNG and the Q-Flex with a capacity of 4.6 billion cubic feet of LNG.

A single Q-Max tanker can transport enough LNG to power approximately 70,000 homes for a whole year. 

This image shows a tanker ready to be filled with crude oil in Kuwait.  These tankers can carry between 2 and 3 million barrels of crude oil per voyage.

“Under normal conditions over 100 ships, including roughly 60-70% tankers and gas carriers, traverse the Strait of Hormuz daily.  This represents approximately 20 million barrels of oil (20% of global consumption) and 20% of LNG trade”

Source:  U.S. energy Information Administration

Sources for this post: American Petroleum Institute, Strauss Center, Mitsui O. S.K. Lines, Reuters, Industrial Info Resources, Nakilat, Qatar Energy LNG, Brand Finance, Wikipedia.

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