very large crude carrier

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very large crude carrier [¦ver·ē ¦lärj ′krüd ‚kar·ē·ər]

(naval architecture)

A liquid-cargo vessel in the 100,000- to 250,000-ton range. Abbreviated VLCC.

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No references found			Vela's Saiph Star, the last vessel of six very large crude carriers (VLCCs) ordered from Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering, entered service on March 19 after a naming ceremony at the South Korean shipyard. Gulf firms receive vessels by Gulf Industry The 300,000-dwt Malaysian Very Large Crude Carrier (VLCC) Bunga Kasturi Dua will arrive in Scapa Flow off Scotland's Orkney Islands and load two cargoes of Ekofisk in a ship-to-ship transfer from one of its own vessels and one cargo from an Italian Aframax, Orkney Harbour said on its website. ConocoPhillips puts Ekofisk crude in VLCC for storage by Oil & Gas News US oil trader Koch and IOC major Royal Dutch Shell are among companies booking very large crude carriers (VLCCs) and ultra large crude carriers (ULCCs) to store steadily increasing volumes having no buyers. Floating Crude Oil Storage Mounts by APS Review Oil Market Trends			Verticil verticillate Vertigo Vertisol Vertov, Dziga Vertumnus Verulamium Verv vervain vervet vervet monkey Verviers Vervins, Treaty of Verwey, Albert Verwoerd Verwoerd, Hendrik Verwoerd, Hendrik Frensch Verworn, Max very close pack ice Very high bit-rate Digital Subscriber Line very high frequency very high frequency omnidirectional radio range very high frequency oscillator very high frequency tuner Very Large Array very large crude carrier Very Large Database Very Large Memory very large scale integrated circuit Very Large Scale Integration very long baseline interferometry Very Long Instruction Word very long range material requirements very long range radar very low frequency very open pack ice very short range radar very small aperture terminal Very, Jones Very, Jones "monomaniac" very-high-output fluorescent lamp Verzhbilovich, Aleksandr Verzhbilovich, Aleksandr Valerianovich Ves VESA VESA Advanced Feature Connector VESA BIOS VESA BIOS Extension VESA BIOS Extension/Audio Interface VESA DDC VESA display modes			Very Impressive Vocational Achievement Very Incomplete Image Manager Very Informed Peers Very Integration Friendly Very Intelligent Person Very Intelligent Surveillance & Target Acquisition Very Interesting Person Very Into Pizza Very Kind to Film Very Knowledgeable Person Very Kool Very Large Very Large Aircraft Very Large Area Network Very Large Area Neutron Detector Very Large Array Very Large Array Very Large Array Very Large Array Radio Telescope Very Large Array Radio Telescope Very Large Array Telescope Very Large Bulk Carrier Very Large Business Application Very Large Case Base Very Large Commercial Transport Very Large Computing Array Very Large Crude Cargo very large crude carrier Very Large Data Base Endowment, Inc. Very Large Data Base Journal very large data set retrieval Very Large Data Store Very Large Data Warehousing Very large database Very large database Very Large Delay Very Large Digital Library Very Large Dimension Manager Very Large Eddy Simulation Very Large Floating Structures Very Large Free Flying Sails Very Large Gas Carrier Very Large Graph Class Very Large Hadron Collider Very Large Hats very large instruction word Very Large Integrated Circuit Very Large Memory Very Large Memory Very Large Monitor Very Large Monitor Envy Very Large Neighborhood Search Very Large Optical Telescope Very Large Ore Carrier

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