5 000 cargoes of oil
Shuttle tanker Evita from Norway’s Ugland shipping company began loading the 5 000th cargo from Statfjord on 28 March 1999.
A total of 4.2 billion barrels had then been lifted from the field since Einar Rasmussen’s Polytraveller took on the first cargo in November 1979.
This meant that a tanker had sailed from Statfjord on seven out of every 10 days after it came on stream. They had loaded an average of 840 000 barrels per consignment.
Source:
Statoil Magazine, no 2, 1999, page 39. ”Statfjord cargo milestone”.
To learn more, see the article on offshore loading .
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