I’m trying to get an accurate schedule for the vessel. It left China late in April, finished conversion in Portugal in June, then sailed to Norfolk. If memory serves, it was tied up there for about a week.
Incidentally, this is the first test with actual oil. The tests in Portugal were done with fire foam.
I may be wrong about how soon it could have been here. I’m suffering a little fatigue with the number of things that have been blocked or delayed due to bureaucratic red tape and territoriality. Norfolk seems a little out of the way just to run it through the Coast Guard checks. How many days did that stop delay it if from entering the Gulf?