Nigeria
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Offshore
Helix scores well intervention contract in Nigeria
Houston-based offshore energy services player Helix Energy Solutions has signed a deepwater well intervention contract with Esso Exploration and Production…
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Offshore
Noble sees drillship contract extended in Nigeria
Offshore drilling giant Noble Corporation has secured more work for its drillship offshore Nigeria. The New York and Copenhagen-listed company…
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Offshore
Dolphin Drilling scraps Nigeria semisub deal
Semisub rig owner Dolphin Drilling has terminated a contract with Peak Petroleum in Nigeria for its 1974-built Blackford Dolphin. The…
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Offshore
Shelf Drilling scores Nigerian double
Oslo-listed jackup rig operator Shelf Drilling has won contracts for two units offshore Nigeria. The 1981-built and 2014-upgraded Adriatic I…
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Offshore
BW Offshore completes sale of Nigerian floater
Oslo-listed BW Offshore continues with the disposal of its non-core fleet with the sale of the floating production storage and…
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Africa
Nigeria creates standalone maritime ministry
Nigeria has established a maritime ministry, aware of the growing need to establish a greater domestic shipping infrastructure. The Marine…
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Operations
One dead, three missing as rig capsizes in Nigeria
One person has died and three have been declared missing after a drilling rig capsized in Nigeria’s Delta State on…
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Offshore
BW Offshore’s Abo FPSO given two-week extension
Floater specialist BW Offshore has agreed a two-week charter extension with Eni’s Nigerian arm Agip Exploration for the Abo floating…
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Offshore
Shell readies tender for Nigerian floater
Shell is tapping the market for a deepwater floating rig to be deployed offshore Nigeria. Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production…
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Gas
Nigeria’s NNPC takes stake in the country’s debut FLNG project
Nigeria’s state oil firm, NNPC, has sealed a deal with fellow developer UTM Offshore to take a 20% stake in…
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Africa
West Africa emerges as key STS hub for Russian oil
West Africa is emerging as a fast-growing hub for Russian ship-to-ship (STS) oil activities. The average number of meetings in…
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Gas
West Africa Gas orders LPG carriers in South Korea
Nigerian owner West Africa Gas has ordered two firm 40,000 cu m LPG carriers at Hyundai Mipo in South Korea…
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Offshore
BW Offshore’s FPSO in Nigeria gets one more extension
Floater specialist BW Offshore has agreed a one-month charter extension with Eni’s Nigerian arm Agip Exploration for the Abo floating…
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Tankers
Nigerian government discusses new tanker taxes
The Nigerian government has provided details of its backdated tax demands for tanker owners who called at the nation in…
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Tankers
Suezmax rates surge as Nigeria issues tanker owners with backdated tax demands
The Nigerian government has spooked the tanker industry by issuing backdated tax demands for millions of dollars to a number…
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Operations
Six kidnapped Monjasa crew freed
Six crewmembers who were kidnapped by pirates from the Liberian-flagged product tanker, in the Gulf of Guinea in late March…
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Africa
Heroic Idun crew released from Nigerian jail after nine-month ordeal
After nine months of incarceration, Nigeria has finally released the crew of the VLCC , who were accused of attempting…
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Gas
Golar LNG signs FLNG vessel deal in Nigeria
Tor Olav Trøim-backed Golar LNG has inked a memorandum of understanding with Nigeria’s state oil firm NNPC to build a…
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Offshore
Shelf Drilling scores Nigerian contract
Dubai-headquartered Shelf Drilling has secured a short-term contract for its 1981-built rig for operations offshore Nigeria. The Oslo-listed jackup rig…
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Tankers
Sea Transport adds MR tanker
Aminu Umar-led Sea Transport, one of Nigeria’s leading tanker players, with nine tankers in its fleet, is tied by brokers…
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