The Office of Naval Intelligence has issued its Piracy Analysis and Warning Weekly (PAWW) Report for 30 June – 6 July 2016 . According to the report, recent activity, specifically a tanker hijacked within the past week off the coast of Ivory Coast, indicates pirates may be actively seeking to hijack another vessel, potentially in the near-term. The region at-large remains at-risk to piracy although this advisory is intended to put special emphasis for ships within 100 nautical miles of Tema, Ghana, Lome, Togo and Contonou, Benin.
Horn of Africa – Piracy Events Over The Past Week
Pirate and maritime crime activity in East Africa waters is at a low level. There were no reported incidents
during the past week.
Details:
- Vessels Hijacked: No incidents to report.
- Vessels Boarded: No incidents to report.
- Vessels Fired Upon/Attempted Boardings: No incidents to report.
- Other Activity: No incidents to repo
Gulf of Guinea – Piracy Events Over The Past Week
Pirate and maritime crime activity in West Africa waters is at a high level. There were 5 attacks reported against
oil infrastructure targets and two reported attacks against personnel, resulting in three deaths, during this past
week.
Details
- Vessels Hijacked: No incidents to report.
- Kidnapping: No incidents to report.
- Vessels Boarded: No incidents to report.
- Vessels Fired Upon/Attempted Boarding/Attack:
1.NIGERIA: On 4 July, suspected Niger Delta Avengers militants bombed a two trunk lines belonging to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, in Batan Community, Warri South West Council Area of Delta State.
2.NIGERIA: On 4 July, suspected Niger Delta Avengers militants bombed a crude oil transport manifold and a large pipeline attached to it in the Makarava area of Delta State.
3.NIGERIA: On 3 July, suspected Niger Delta Avengers militants bombed two oil wells operated by Chevron near the Abiteye flow station, in Delta state.
4.NIGERIA: On 2 July, suspected Niger Delta Avengers militants bombed two oil pipelines connected to Batan flow station in Delta State, operated by Nigerian Petroleum Development Company, a subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation NNPC.
5. NIGERIA: On 2 July, suspected Niger Delta Avengers militants attacked a pipeline surveillance team in the same area of the Batan Flow Station shortly after the bombing of that facility.
6.NIGERIA: On 2 July, armed gang suspected to be sea pirates, killed three workers of an international oil company, Nigerian Agip Oil Company, NAOC in Bayelsa State. The victims were carrying out repairs at a work station in the creeks of Nembe around Obama flow station operated by Eni Oil, a parent company of Agip when the incident occurred. It wasn’t clear if members of the Niger Delta Avengers were responsible for the attack, but the militants have previously warned that any attempt to repair bombed oil and gas facilities would be bloody.
7.NIGERIA: On 1 July, suspected Niger Delta Avengers militants bombed an oil pipeline connecting to an oil refinery in Warri operated by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). - Other Activity: No incidents to report.
Further details may be found by reading ONI PAWW Report:
Also read ONI Worldwide Threat to Shipping (WTS) report which rovides info on piracy threats to, and criminal action against, merchant vessels worldwide in the last 30 days (period 7 June – 6 July 2016)
- NIGERIA: On 4 July, suspected Niger Delta Avengers militants bombed two trunk lines in Batan Community, Warri South West Council Area of Delta State.
- NIGERIA: On 4 July, suspected Niger Delta Avengers militants bombed a crude oil transport manifold and a large pipeline attached to it in Delta State.
- GUINEA: On 3 July, six robbers in a boat armed with machine guns and knives boarded a heavy lift vessel anchored in Conakry Anchorage.
- NIGERIA: On 3 July, suspected Niger Delta Avengers militants bombed two oil wells near the Abiteye flow station, in Delta state.
- NIGERIA: On 2 July suspected Niger Delta Avengers militants bombed two oil pipelines connected to Batan flow station in Delta State.
- NIGERIA: On 2 July suspected Niger Delta Avengers militants attacked a pipeline surveillance team in the same area of the Batan Flow Station shortly after the bombing of that facility.
- NIGERIA: On 2 July, suspected pirates killed three workers of an international oil Company in Bayelsa State.
- NIGERIA: On 1 July, suspected Niger Delta Avengers militants bombed an oil pipeline connecting to an oil refinery in Warri.
- MARTINIQUE: On 1 July a robber boarded a sailing yacht anchored in Ansa Mitan.
- SINGAPORE: On 1 July, Police Coast Guard officials arrested three men and impounded a vessel after an inspection revealed 1,515 cartons of undeclared cigarettes in a cargo hold.
- LIBYA: On 30 June, Libyan forces intercepted and arrested the tanker TEMETERON on suspicion of oil smuggling.
- BANGLADESH: On 30 June, seven fishermen were abducted by robbers from the Bay of Bengal in Patharghata of Barguna in separate incidents.
- MALAYSIA: On 30 June Malaysian authorities detained two Thailand-flagged fishing vessels and arrested 10 crewmen after a search of the vessels revealed evidence of fuel smuggling.
- CHINA: On 29 June, police in Shenzhen searched a suspicious fishing boat and found 370 individually wrapped iPhones that were being smuggled under a cargo of fish.
- INDONESIA: On 28 June, ten pirates boarded a tanker 26 nm west-southwest of Mangkai Island.
- PERU: On 26 June, robbers boarded an anchored bulk carrier in Callao Anchorage.
- DOMICAN REPUBLIC: On 25 June, a robber boarded a sailing yacht anchored in Santa Barbara de Samana.
- PUERTO RICO: On 20 June, robbers boarded an anchored sailing yacht in Isabel Segunda, Vieques.
- ST VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES: On 9 June, robbers stole an outboard engine attached to the back of a sailing yacht anchored in Union Clifton Harbor.
- ST VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES: On 2 June, robbers boarded an anchored sailing yacht in Canouan Charlestown Bay.
Further details may be found by reading ONI WTS Report:
Source: ONI
