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Exxon Santa Ynez (OS&T)
Offshore Storage and Treating Vessel (0S&T). Removing impurities from an estimated 32,000 barrels a day of oil produced from the Hondo field. The oil is stored in the vessel and subsequently transferred to tankers and transported to a refinery for processing.
0S&T vessel (Exxon Santa Ynez) transferring to tanker (Exxon Washington).
1981.
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Single Point Mooring System:
"Exxon Santa Ynez" a storage and treatment vessel, left. takes on crude oil via large mooring buoy and yoke (seen at the stern). After impurities have been removed; oil is stored in the vessel and subsequently transferred to tankers, like one shown ("Exxon Washington") and transported to a refinery for processing. Location is the Hondo Field in the Santa Barbara Channel, off southern California. The Hondo platform can be seen in far background.
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