What Is The Distance Oil Tankers Travel From Middle East To The Us?

By | Nov 28, 2009

I am looking for the distance a tanker would have to travel if it is carrying crude oil from a field in Qatar or Saudi Arabia.

2 Comments so far
  1. Colonel Sturgeon November 28, 2009 6:30 am

    All the way.

  2. kramkihc November 28, 2009 6:46 am

    This is the hardest answer I have yet to find.
    First, because oil tankers are usually too large to transit through the Suez Canal, they go around the southern tip of Africa. So, from Saudi Arabia to the Cape of Good Hope is 5078 nautical miles. From there to, say, Norfolk, Virginia is 6802 nautical miles. That is a total of 11880 nautical miles. In reality, it would be further, for most oil is imported to the Gufl Coast (like New Orleans), which is further.

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