Ah, lightering, a process that takes place every day and hardly anyone knows about it. When we first tried to test wells offshore to barges or tankers or to do FPSO with tanker transport and pointed out that what we planned was no more risky than lightering.. we were told “its different” but nobody could explain how it was different.
Ignorance is bliss isn’t it?
Remember the Mega Borg? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega_Borg_Oil_Spill
The only thing that kept that from becoming horrible was a big fire and the big fire was because of light oil.
And transport of crude by train is so much safer than pipelines too.
>>When we first tried to test wells offshore to barges or tankers <<
Would you mind rephrasing this. I have no idea what you are trying to say.