Tag: oil

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.

In this week’s “Shipping Number of the Week” from BIMCO, Chief Shipping Analyst, Niels Rasmussen, looks at the effect of Saudi Arabia’s crude oil production cuts and exports.

ExxonMobil successfully completed a commercial marine biofuel oil bunkering in the port of Singapore on 1st April 2023. Evergreen Line’s vessel, received ExxonMobil’s marine biofuel oil blend via a ship-to-ship transfer in Singapore waters before heading to the discharge port.

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

Four activists from Greenpeace Nordic have taken peaceful action against a tanker carrying toxic waste from the Norwegian oil industry to be discharged in Denmark.

According to documents provided by the US Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of California, Denys Korotkiy, chief engineer was convicted by a federal jury in Southern California of conspiracy to obstruct justice, obstruction of justice, and failure to maintain an accurate oil record book for the vessel.

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.

Avance Gas has entered into a newbuilding contract with CIMC for the construction of two mid- sized LPG/ammonia carriers with dual fuel engines that can run on LPG as fuel in addition to compliant fuel oil.

The Spanish government has fined a Vietnamese ship operator $129,000, for an unauthorised ship-to-ship oil transfer that was at the centre of a Russian sanctions probe.

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.