Article: TEXACO INC. ACQUIRES DOUBLE HULL TANKER; SHIP TO BE NAMED 'STAR OHIO' AFTER HISTORIC WORLD WAR II VESSEL

 
   TEXACO  INC. ACQUIRES DOUBLE HULL TANKER; 
SHIP TO BE NAMED 'STAR OHIO' AFTER HISTORIC WORLD WAR II VESSEL 
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., Oct. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Texaco Inc. (NYSE: TX) announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary, Texaco Panama Inc., has taken delivery of a new double-hull motor tanker.  The 900-foot vessel, which can carry up to one million barrels of oil, is named the "STAR OHIO", after the company's historic World War II tanker, the "OHIO". 
The vessel was built at Samsung's Koje, Korea, shipyard to strict American Bureau of Shipping Standards, including ice-strengthening. Texaco intends to operate her in worldwide trading, carrying crude ...

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