January 2nd, 20200BW Offshore has secured an extension from Nigerian Agip Exploration Ltd, a subsidiary of Italy’s Eni, for 1976-built . The extension is through to the end of 2020, and includes further options through to the end of 2021. Abo FPSO has been operating offshore Nigeria in the Abo field since 2003.
December 30th, 20190Piracy attacks off West Africa over the past week have escalated, reaching extraordinarily dangerous proportions where bullets were fired at a moving LNG carrier. Not for the first time, the BW Group-owned was attacked on Saturday morning while en route to Bonny in southern Nigeria. The vessel is understood to have come under attack...
December 10th, 20190Dubai-headquartered offshore driller Shelf Drilling has been awarded a one-year extension for its 1982-built jackup rig . The extension is in direct continuation of its current contract for workover operations offshore Nigeria. The extension keeps the rig contracted through to February 2021.
December 4th, 20196The piracy situation in West Africa has descended to new lows with a VLCC raided by armed men yesterday and 19 crew kidnapped. The attack on the Anglo-Eastern-managed took place 66 nautical miles south of Bonny Offshore Terminal, and 24 nautical miles east of the Egina FPSO. Nineteen crew members were reportedly kidnapped,...
September 9th, 20190Malaysia’s Bumi Armada has entered into an agreement with Nigeria's Century Energy Services Limited (CESL) for the sale of the FPSO for $40m. The FPSO, which has been out of contract in Nigeria since last year, will be deployed by CESL to a field off Nigeria. Armada Perdana has been out of contract since charterer Erin Petroleum...
August 12th, 20190Ten Turkish seafarers who were kidnapped last month off the coast of West Africa have been released. The 10 men were bound for Ivory Coast aboard a containership when the vessel, , was intercepted by pirates off the coast of Nigeria on 16 July. The pirates left eight other crew aboard. Turkish state media channel TRT said the...
August 6th, 20190Dubai-headquartered Shelf Drilling has announced that it has secured a six-month contract extension for 2008-built jackup rig . The rig is operating offshore Nigeria, having commenced drilling for Chevron in March 2018. The new extension is in direct continuation of its current contract. Shelf Drilling has announced a number of new...
July 24th, 20190Turkish shipping company Kadioglu Denizcilik has established first contact with the group of pirates who kidnapped 10 crew from the company's general cargo ship last week. Turkish local reports citing unnamed sources, who said that the pirates likely prolonged the contact process to keep the amount of ransom high and the bargaining...
July 17th, 20190Ten Turkish sailors were taken hostage by armed pirates who attacked a Turkish-flagged ship off the coast of Nigeria, the vessel’s owner, Kadioglu Denizcilik, said yesterday. Another eight sailors were left safely aboard. The sailors onboard the were seized on Saturday evening in West African waters, an area that has become the...
June 10th, 20191Some of shipping’s top stakeholders met on Friday at the London headquarters of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) to demand action to counter the dire piracy situation off the Gulf of Guinea, which is causing severe distress for seafarers who have to transit the region. The event, co-sponsored by BIMCO, IMCA, ICS, ITF...
