May 1st, 20200The Panamanian-flagged , a 6,152 dwt product tanker controlled by Piraeus-based Queensway Navigation, was attacked in Nigerian waters yesterday by a speedboat with armed individuals boarding the ship and taking 10 crew as hostage. Security consultants Dryad Global report the latest attack brings the number of kidnapped seafarers off...
March 27th, 20200The Nigerian president, Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday introduced tough new coronavirus measures for container and dry bulk ships calling at the West African oil hub. Tankers, however, are allowed to proceed as normal. Nigeria will now only allow ships that have been at sea for more than two weeks to dock in its ports to prevent the...
March 12th, 20201Extraordinary ongoing delays at ports in and around Lagos in Nigeria are forcing liners to deploy extra ships to the region. In a note to clients yesterday German carrier Hapag-Lloyd revealed waiting times at APM Terminals’ Apapa facility exceed 30 days while calls to Bollore’s Tincan Island Container Terminal are also...
February 5th, 20202The departing CEO of international shipowning organisation BIMCO has hit out at Nigerian authorities’ complete failure to rein in the horrendous piracy situation in West Africa as well as the tacit complicity of oil majors not to speak out on the matter. In a note to members entitled ‘We must speak the truth about Gulf of...
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...
