Big moment of the nineteenth century -- Other beginnings, ten thousand miles away -- Sumatra to Seattle, 1912-1920 -- An investment in Oklahoma, 1912-1920 -- A springboard to prominence, 1920-1925 -- ...

Oil major Shell operates a fleet of giant ships permanently moored over oilfields around the world. The ships receive oil pumped from wells beneath the seabed and transfer it to tankers. Reporting by ...

Off the coast of Nigeria, one of the world’s largest oil production ships, called the Bonga, was taking oil from a field on the ocean floor and transferring it to a tanker ship. Such transfers are ...