SeaRiver Maritime Names Newest US-Flagged Crude Oil Tanker

The bitterly chilly and wet skies in Philadelphia in the present day had been maybe a foreboding reminder of the place ExxonMobil’s latest crude oil tanker, Eagle Bay will quickly be headed. Destined to ship Alaskan crude oil to the U.S. west coast, she was named in the present day at Aker Philadelphia Shipyard and is the second of two U.S.-flag crude oil tankers constructed on the shipyard for ExxonMobil affiliate, SeaRiver Maritime.

In June, the sister-ship Liberty Bay was delivered. Both ships will substitute current double-hull tankers working on the Alaska-West Coast route and are the biggest vessels ever constructed at Aker Philadelphia, in response to the shipyard.

The two vessels can carry as much as 800,000 barrels of oil and are powered by a single six-cylinder MAN B&W 6S60MC-C8.2 Tier 2 engine which can burn ultra-low sulfur gasoline oil so as to meet emissions necessities whereas in ECAs. ExxonMobil says the 2 ships got here at at an combination value of $400 million and have helped to create upwards of 1,200 jobs within the Philadelphia area.

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Vessel particulars, through Aker Philadelphia Shipyard

Class: ABS
Design: Samsung
LOA: 251.1 meters
Beam: 43.8 meters
Draft: 15.0 meters
Cargo: 126,000 cubic meters (800k bbls)
Design velocity: 15 kts
Main Engine: M AN-B&W 6S60M E-C8.2, 2-stroke, 6-cylinder
Accommodation: 28+6

While ending out the Eagle Bay, Aker Philadelphia Shipyard nonetheless has 4 medium vary 50k deadweight tankers on the books for Crowley and two twin gasoline 3,600 TEU containerships for Matson.