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Knock Nevis has a deadweight of 564,763 t ( tonnes) and a summer displacement of 647,955 t when laden with nearly 650,000 m³ (4.1 million barrels) of crude oil. It sits 24.6 metres in the water when fully loaded, which makes it impossible for it to navigate even through the English Channel, let alone man-made canals at Suez and PanamaThe Panama Canal is a large canal, 51 miles (82 kilometers) long, that cuts through the isthmus of Panama, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Because of the S shape of Panama, the Atlantic lies to the west of the canal and the Pacific to the east. It sits too deep for most harbors, so it needs to be loaded and unloaded while anchored at open sea, which increases the risk of accidents and spillages. The ship sails under the flag of SingaporeThe Republic of Singapore ( Chinese , pinyin: Xinjiapo Gonghegu Malay Republik Singapura Tamil , Cingkappur Kudiyarasu , is an island city-state in Southeast Asia, at latitude 1°17'35"N longitude 103°51'20"E, situated on the southern tip of Malay Peninsul. It is crewed by 40 people.
Knock Nevis was built at Sumimoto Corporation 's Oppama shipyardDockyards and shipyards are places which repair and build ships. These can be yachts, military vessels, cruise liners or other cargo or passenger ships. Dockyards are sometimes more associated with maintenance and basing activities than shipyards, which a in JapanJapan (, Nippon/Nihon literally "the origin of the sun") is a country in East Asia situated on a chain of islands east of the Asian continent on the western edge of the Pacific Ocean. The largest of these islands are, from north to south, Hokkaido , Honsh for a GreekGreece formally called the Hellenic Republic (in Greek: ) Hellenike Demokratia , is a country in the southeast of Europe on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula. It is bounded on land by Bulgaria, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Albania owner who went bankrupt before the ship was finished. The unfinished ship was bought by a Hong Kong shipping magnate who had it extended by several meters, thus increasing its load-carrying capacity and making it the largest ship ever built. The ship was finally floated two years later and named Seawise Giant.
At first it operated in the Gulf of MexicoThe Gulf of Mexico is a major body of water bordered and nearly landlocked by North America. The gulf's eastern, north, and northwestern shores lie within the United States of America (specifically, the states of Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and the Caribbean SeaThe Caribbean Sea is a body of water adjacent to the Atlantic Ocean, south of the Gulf of Mexico. It is bounded on the south by Venezuela, Colombia, and Panama, to the west by Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, Belize, and the Yucatan peninsula o, but it was then used for exporting oil from IranIran ( Persian: ) is a Middle Eastern country located in southwestern Asia that until 1935 was referred to in the West as Persia''. It borders Pakistan (909km of border) and Afghanistan (936km) to the east, Turkmenistan (1000km) to the northeast, the Casp during the Iran-Iraq War. In 1986, the ship was attacked and sunk in the Strait of Hormuz by Iraqi aircraft with Exocet missiles. At the end of the Iran-Iraq War in 1989, the ship was refloated, repaired, and renamed Happy Giant. In 1991, it was renamed again, this time to the Jahre Viking.
In March 2004, the ship was sent to the Dubai drydocks to be refitted as a floating storage and offloading unit [1]. There, it was given its current name, Knock Nevis. The ship will operate at the Al Shaheen oilfield in the waters of Qatar.