Mattole then resumed her coastal and Caribbean tanker operations.

To become a front-runner in tanker operations is the aim for Knutsen O.A.S. From this, the company has therefore stringent requirements with respects to safety, the environment and quality.

Chevron has requested a permit to begin tanker operations but, after studies and hearings, it will not come up for a vote of the five supervisors until early November.

At Connany the command gained responsibility for TAC's day fighter, fighter-bomber, and aerial tanker operations on western U.S. bases.

The study found formidable problems as the service tries "to reasonably assure that U.S. ports are not exposed to a high degree of risk" from tanker operations.

"They know the tanker operations are entirely automated, so they want to make sure there's only one of you aboard the tanker when the transfer takes place."

SASCO is the shipowner, while AMOCO manages tanker operations.

During the next year, Kern continued tanker operations out of Pearl Harbor, supplying American bases on Midway, Canton, and Palmyra Islands with gasoline and oil.

Then, the matter of safe tanker operation has been of global concern for many years and is not of recent development.

No responsible industry person has ever promised accident-free tanker operations or perfect oil-spill cleanup.