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Oil

Authors: Christine TRAVERS, Eric TOCQUÉ

Publication date: January 10, 2016

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3. Transport and distribution

After extraction, the oil is transported to processing and storage facilities.

Most crude oil and petroleum products are transported :

  • or in dedicated pipelines;

  • or in special tankers called oil tankers.

The main oil flows around the world are shown in figure 4 .

Main oil flows worldwide (millions of tonnes) (doc. IFP-Training based on BP Statistical Review, CEG and IEA)
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