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...
May 7th, 20190Nigeria-based Tamrose Ventures, a logistics services provider in the oil and gas industry, has acquired a resale platform supply vessel from China's Fujian Mawei Shipbuilding. The vessel was originally ordered by Dubai-based owner Marine Assets Corporation in 2013, and it has been renamed TMC Evolution. The price of the deal was...
January 28th, 20190Three attacks on ships off West Africa have been reported by maritime security specialists Ambrey in the space of just 24 hours. The Liberia-flagged product tanker Levanto was fired at on January 24 while underway at 10.9 knots en route from Lagos to Calabar, Nigeria. The Unibros Shipping Corp-owned vessel deviated course, increased...
December 19th, 20180BW Offshore has signed an extension agreement with Nigerian Agip Exploration, a subsidiary of Eni, for FPSO . Last year, the FPSO was signed up to a long-term extension through to the end of March 2018 with a series of options available through to 2023. This latest option takes the contract through to June 30, 2019. The 1976-built...
November 1st, 20180Nigerian state-run Nigerian National Petroleum Commission (NNPC) has announced that subsidiary NIDAS Shipping Services will resume crude shipping services after seven years of suspended operations. The company said the re-entry of its shipping services subsidiary was in tandem with its ongoing efforts to rejuvenate some subsidiaries...
