Marine STS Bunker Hose: The "Super Connector" of the "Maritime Energy Artery"-Part 1

On the vast ocean, huge oil tankers resemble mobile castles, carrying the "blood" of the global economy - oil and natural gas. However, how to safely and efficiently transfer these energy sources from the ocean-going tankers to the onshore storage tanks or smaller vessels? This is impossible without a key offshore technology: the submarine oil pipeline under the Single Point Mooring (SPM) system. More commonly and professionally, it is called "STS pipeline" or "offshore oil hose".

I. What is an Marine STS Bunker Hose?

STS is the abbreviation of "Ship-to-Ship" (ship-to-ship) or "Ship-to-Shore" (ship-to-shore). The Marine STS Bunker Hose specifically refers to a **special flexible pipeline used for transporting liquid goods such as crude oil, refined oil, and liquefied gas between different ships or between ships and offshore fixed facilities in an offshore environment.

It is not the hard steel pipe we imagined, but a flexible hose made of high-tech composite materials. It is a core component of the transmission system where it is located. The entire system is usually called the Single Point Mooring (SPM) system, and the oil pipeline is the "last lifeline" connecting the SPM buoy and the oil tanker.