Tag: Nigeria

In light of the disrupted Nembe Creek trunk line (NCTL) pipeline, Nigeria has resorted to using small river vessels to transport its oil to other vessels. 

Oil rig Majestic capsized on August 15th in Nigeria when in-transit to its planned drilling location at Ovhor in Delta State.

According to Brazilian federal police, four Nigerian stowaways survived 14 days stuck in a cramped area above a cargo vessel's rudder, before rescued. 

On 28th July, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) detained bulk carrier with 24kgs of cocaine, at Lagos, Nigeria.

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) said on Monday, 10th July, that an 800,000-litre vessel carrying stolen crude oil had been intercepted offshore while heading to Cameroon and would be destroyed as a deterrent to oil theft.

Nigeria has launched a tax probe into international petroleum shipping firms (IPSCs) that did business in Nigeria between 2010 and 2019. 

Sixteen crew members from India associated with a cargo vessel dubbed MT Heroic Idun, who had been in detention for more than nine months in Nigeria and Equatorial Guinea, have finally returned home.

On 28th May, Nigerian released a Norwegian-seized vessel, MT Heroic Idun, which caught because it attempted to steal Nigeria’s crude oil in August 2022.

Earlier this week, The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom concluded that it was too late for a group of Nigerian claimants to sue two Shell companies over the Nigeria Bonga oil spill in 2011.

Port Harcourt court has ordered the release of crew of Heroic Idun that was detained by authorities in Equatorial Guinea last August.