oil transport
Crude cargo movement
Oil transport is the movement of petroleum and petroleum products from extraction sites to refineries and markets.
This encompasses pipelines, tanker ships, rail cars, and trucks.
The term appears in discussions of infrastructure, environmental risk, and energy policy: The oil transport industry faces new regulations after the spill.
Pipeline versus rail oil transport remains controversial.
- black goldSlang for petroleum
- crude oilUnrefined fossil fuel
- bargeFlat freight vessel
- oil terminalPetroleum shipping and storage hub
- railcarTrack-bound transport vessel
pipeline · pumping station · tanker · Strait of Hormuz · shipping lanes · Suez Canal · storage tank · oil spill response · spill cleanup · maritime trade · truck · shipping container · loading dock · fuel depot · tank farm · transshipment · refinery · offshore
- freight transportfreight train, freight car, cargo ship, container, cargo plane
- railwaystrains, train, locomotives, locomotive, tracks
- shippingshipping, cargo ships, container ships, freight, package
oil transportoil storage
Keeping extracted crude contained
oil reserves · oil extraction · oil drilling · strategic reserves · oil refining