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I see your boat and raise you:
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Love the 'No smoking' sign there! They *really* don't want you to smoke do they? Or is it a case of, lets make the sign big enough so we don't have to put up small signs all over the place?
 
Love the 'No smoking' sign there! They *really* don't want you to smoke do they? Or is it a case of, lets make the sign big enough so we don't have to put up small signs all over the place?

It's used as an 'immobile offshore platform for the oil industry'... so I imagine they REALLY don't want you to smoke :p
 
and I think I'm right in saying that these things run on the crude oil that they carry.
They have their own processing plant on board to turn it into something burnable.
 
and I think I'm right in saying that these things run on the crude oil that they carry.
They have their own processing plant on board to turn it into something burnable.
I don't think so. I think they take on fuel from a separate source. They run on heavy fuel oil, a highly viscous residual product of fractional distillation. It has to be heated before being introduced into the engine because it isn't volatile enough at low temperatures. It's essentially one step away from tar.
 
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