FOREWORD It is my pleasure to forward this copy of the Proceedings of the 1992 Tanker Conference. I hope this compilation of participants' remarks will be useful to you. The papers represent the express opinions of the authors. The American Petroleum Institute assures neither the accuracy nor the reliability of the data contained in them. Questions about the technical content of the papers should be directed to the authors. If you have any recommendations for improving the conference or-suggestions for specific topics@ please direct them to Sharon Wilson at the above address. The next Tanker conference will be held June 19-22@ 1994@ Inn at Spanish Bay@ Pebble Beach@ California. I hope to see you there.