Iraq Surplus???

[geetrue]

I say lets steal it ... all we have to do is get it over here, right?

One million barrels of crude oil equals = $109,000,000,000 USD

modern oil tanker

Suezmax tankers are in the size range of 120,000 to 200,000 DWT and are generally identified as ships capable of lifiting one million barrels of crude oil.

No US flag oil tankers makes it harder to steal that much oil, but Russia had a plan ten years ago that is now very affordable.

Russian submarine oil tanker

Originally Posted by http://www.fishingnj.org/artoilsub.htm

04:22 PM ET 08/11/98 (from InfoBeat)
MOSCOW, Aug 11 (Reuters) - It may sound like science fiction but the first nuclear-powered underwater oil tanker could soon be a reality,
cruising from Russia under the Arctic ice cap.
A Russian naval architect who designed nuclear submarines for the Soviet navy said on Tuesday his firm had already won interest in its blueprints from companies
wanting to transport oil from northern Russia to Japan under the frozen polar sea. Boris Dronov, a chief designer at the Malakhit design bureau in St Petersburg,
said the first 30,000-tonne submarine -- about the capacity of a medium-sized surface oil tanker --
could be launched within four years if a sale can be clinched this year.

``The era of ice-breakers is coming to an end, underwater tankers are an all-weather transport and can carry oil and gas all the year round,'' he said.

Russia's Arctic north coast, close to many of its biggest oil and gas fields, is ice-bound for most of the year.

Dronov said the company has several designs capable of carrying 10,000, 20,000 or 30,000 tonnes at speeds of 19 to 21.5 knots up to 400 km (250 miles) offshore.

He said it was envisaged that the new tanker could deliver oil and gas from Russia's northern Yamal peninsula to western Europe and Japan, South Korea and other big Asian consumers.

``We abandoned an idea of using decommissioned nuclear submarines for carrying oil and other fuel, and our newly-designed tanker is completely different,'' Dronov said.

``Only superficially does it look like a submarine.''