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COLUMN | Action for the Heroic Idun crew: Nigeria should fire its corrupt naval leadership, Modi should grow a backbone, and Abuja should free the detained crew now! [Offshore Accounts]
A reader once criticised this column as “a bit ranty”. He should close his browser now and avert his eyes. This week’s column is not going to be a bit ranty; it is ..
COLUMN | Nigeria teeters on the edge as oil production collapses, boats sink and the currency plunges [Offshore Accounts]
For all of my lifetime, if you had asked which country was the largest oil producer in Sub-Saharan Africa, the answer would have been Nigeria. For five decades, the count ..
Trinity Spirit Ship Blast Followed $200 Million Trail Of Debt Defaults
By William Clowes (Bloomberg) The owners of an oil-production and storage ship had a history of financial problems before the vessel blew up in Nigerian waters two months ago. The Trinity…
Nigeria’s Deadly Exploding FPSO Has Peers All Over The World
By Paul Burkhardt (Bloomberg) Trinity Spirit, the decades-old, oil-storage ship that blew up off the coast of Nigeria recently — killing some of its crew and spewing its contents into the…
https://gcaptain.com/nigerias-deadly-exploding-fpso-has-peers-all-over-the-world/
COLUMN | Yinson gets big in Brazil, while competitors bleed, and POSH quits Taiwan [Offshore Accounts]
Asian companies have taken a battering in the offshore industry downturn. Singapore’s Ezion and Ezra have gone into liquidation, Malaysian OSV builder and owner Nam Che ..
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Three ‘Trinity Spirit’ Crew Members Found Alive
ENAGAO, Nigeria (Reuters) – At least three people died in Nigeria when the oil storage and production vessel, FPSO Trinity Spirit, exploded last week and four crew are still missing, the operating…
https://gcaptain.com/three-trinity-spirit-crew-members-found-alive/
Trinity Spirit FPSO Was Old and Poorly Maintained -Sources
By Tife Owolabi and Julia Payne WARRI, Nigeria/LONDON, Feb 4 (Reuters) – An oil vessel used for storage that exploded off the coast of Nigeria this week had not been…
https://gcaptain.com/trinity-spirit-fpso-was-old-and-poorly-maintained-sources/
Nigeria-operated FPSO catches fire, sinks following onboard explosions
A floating production storage and offloading vessel (FPSO) suffered a series of explosions while off the coast of Nigeria on Wednesday, February 2. Lagos-based Shebah Exp ..
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Major Disaster Unfolding as FPSO Explodes Off Nigeria
By William Clowes (Bloomberg) — An oil production ship exploded off the coast of Nigeria in what may prove to be the nation’s second major environmental setback in three months. The…
https://gcaptain.com/major-disaster-trinity-spirit-fpso-explodes-off-nigeria/