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Maritime Chronometers and John Harrison’s Legacy

The 1707 Scilly Naval Disaster is one of the greatest losses in the history of the British Royal Navy, resulting...

Bunkerist 10-Year Letter

Dear customers, business partners, and the entire Bunkerist Trading and Brokering family, This year, we are excited and proud to...

Mass Flow Meter

Mass Flow Meter MFM for short is a device that measures the flow rate per mass of liquid passing through...

Hemp and Shipping

Hemp is one of the most planted crops in history. For thousands of years, both animals and humans have used...

Protection from fluctuating fuel prices (Hedging)

A variable fuel price hedge is a contractual tool used by companies that consume large volumes of fuel, such as...

Oil and the Dutch Disease

In the early 2000s, the combined wealth of the world’s three richest people was more than the Gross domestic product...

LNG Propulsion Ships

A century ago, the conversion from coal fuels to petroleum fuels took place in maritime transport. The pursuit and work...

Suez Canal

Located in the west of the Sinai Peninsula, the Suez Canal is 193.30 km (120.11 mi) long, including the northern...

Alternative Fuel; LPG

Shipping is the lifeblood of the international economy. Whatever the product and service from manufacturers to consumers, transportation and logistics...

Base Oil

It is used in the manufacture of lubricating products, including base oils, machine/engine oil, lubricating greases and metalworking fluids. Different...

Women in the Oil and Gas Industry

When we say anomaly, we can differentiate it as imbalance, abnormality, defective formation, being outside the base, deviation from the...

A pioneer in the oil industry

Sir Thomas Boverton Redwood (1846-1919), the father of petroleum engineering in Britain and a giant in the history of the...

First Oil Shock 1973

The 1973 oil crisis began when members of the Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries Organization, led by Saudi Arabia, declared an...

Persian Gulf

The Persian Gulf is a mediterranean sea in Western Asia. The body of water is an extension of the Arabian...

The Rise and Fall of the Standard Oil Company

If someone were to write the Standard Oil Company saga as a drama, it would have three great actors: “The...

Standard Oil and John D. Rockefeller: The First and Richest Oil King

John Davison Rockefeller was born on July 8, 1839, on a farm in Richford, New York. His father, William Avery...

Standard Oil and Ida Tarbell

A century ago, in 1911, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Standard Oil Company, an oil monopoly in the...

Mucilage

Mucilage is a thick, gluey substance produced by nearly all plants and some microorganisms. These microorganisms include protists which use...

Ghost Fishing Nets

Ghost nets are fishing nets left, abandoned or lost in the ocean by fishermen. Nearly invisible in low light, these...

Scrubber

Scrubber systems are a wide variety of air pollution control devices that can be used to remove some particles and...

Exxon Valdez Oil Spill

We humans have come an incredible way since we started using oil and learned how to use it. The oil...

Cabotage

Cabotage is the privilege that a state gives to its ports in terms of maritime trade. Since only their citizens...

LPG Liquefied petroleum gas

What is LPG? Liquefied petroleum gas is obtained from the gases produced during the refining of petroleum. LPG is completely...

LNG Liquefied Natural Gas

Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is liquefied natural gas by refrigeration for non-pressure storage or transportation convenience and safety. LNG mainly...

What is Carbon Neutral?

Carbon neutrality refers to achieving net zero carbon dioxide emissions by offsetting carbon dioxide emissions (usually through carbon offsetting) or...

Nuclear Propulsion Ships

Nuclear marine propulsion is the propulsion of a ship or submarine by heat supplied by a nuclear power plant. The...

Oil Refinery

Oil refinery is an industrial process facility where crude oil is refined into more useful products such as asphalt, heating...

Carbon Capture and Storage

As the world continues to grapple with the effects of climate change, finding ways to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions...

Maritime Law

Admiralty Law, or Maritime Law, is a legal body that manages maritime issues and private maritime disputes. It consists of...

Sailors, Hidden Heroes of the Pandemic

We are grateful to all the eponymous heroic sailors who have worked devotedly to meet the needs of humanity as...
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