Pirates Kidnap Nine from BW Offshore FPSO Off Nigeria
FPSOSendje Berge File Photo: MarineTraffic.com/Gwenole de KERMENGUY
OSLO, July 2 (Reuters)– Pirates assaulted an oil manufacturing vessel off Nigeria in the very early hrs of Thursday and also abducted 9 Nigerian nationals, the ship’s proprietor BWOffshore said
The Sendje Berge ship was going through upkeep when the assault took place, BW Offshore’s Chief Financial Officer Staale Andreassen informed Reuters.
The Oslo- noted firm claimed none of individuals continuing to be on the vessel were wounded.
“We are working now with the Nigerian authorities to get those nine people safely back,” Andreassen included.
The vessel, a drifting manufacturing, storage space and also unloading vessel (FPSO) that can generate regarding 50,000 barrels each day, was operating at the Okwori oilfield run by Addax Petroleum, a component of China’s Sinopec Group.
A naval protection company Dryad Global, pointing out unknown records, claimed the assault entailed 3 watercrafts and also dynamites, making it uncommon.
Andreassen claimed he might not validated that a variety of watercrafts had actually been entailed, yet rejected that dynamites were utilized throughout the assault. (Reporting by Nerijus Adomaitis; Editing by Gwladys Fouche and also Pravin Char)
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