Tanker Ocean Energy

     This is Tanker Ocean Energy, hailing from Belize City, Belize, .  She is 175 feet long, a beam of over 40 feet and a draft of close to 10'.  She is just one of many fuel tankers serving the Bahamas.  We spotted this ship in Salt Pond, Long Island, Bahamas, which does not have a "deep draft harbor/dock". Ocean Energy came into the harbor with the mid-day high tide. What may be unique about this tanker is how they refuel land based petroleum storage sites.  Ocean Energy came to within 1500 feet of shore and dropped her anchors, 2 bow and 1 stern anchor.  In the photo, on the port side just at mid-ship is a very large hose reel.  The next operation was to "drag" by dinghy not one but two fueling hoses separately to shore and connect to the storage tanks.  No ocean terminal to connect to here. Then Ocean Energy delivered the gasoline and diesel fuels by pumping the product to shore.  This phase of the operation took a couple of hours and thankfully without incident.  Once refueling was complete, Ocean Energy had to wait until the next high tide at midnight to depart the harbor.