Tag: oil and gas
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Oil Shippers Raise Offers for Middle East Route on Gulf Risk
January 08: Owners of oil tankers are boosting their rates to haul crude on a key route from the Middle East as risks in the Gulf escalate after Iran retaliated against the […]
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Loadings At Zawiya Oil Port in Libya Undisrupted By Nearby Missile Strike
December 26: Loadings at Libya’s western Zawiya oil port, home also to a refinery, are continuing normally despite a missile landing nearby, state energy firm NOC said on Friday. The […]
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Nigerian Navy Monitors Pipelines Using UAVs (Drones)
November 15: The Nigerian Navy (NN) on Thursday said drones [unmanned aerial vehicles; UAVs] and helicopters have been deployed for surveillance of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) pipelines from Atlas […]
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Niger Delta Estimated to Have Lost $1.35bn To Oil Theft in First Quarter
November 05: Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki has said that the Niger Delta region lost about 22 million barrels of crude oil, estimated at $1.35 billion to oil theft in […]
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Singapore Authorities Arrest 11 Men for Illegal MGO Transaction
November 03: Singapore’s Police Coast Guard (PCG), in a joint operation with the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA), has arrested 11 men for their suspected involvement in an […]
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Mysterious Oil Spill Reaches Beach in Major Brazilian City
October 11: A mysterious oil spill that has polluted at least 150 beaches along Brazil’s northeastern coast reached the city of Salvador on Friday as officials tried to determine the […]
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OFAC Advisory to the Maritime Petroleum Shipping Community
September 04: The US Department of the Treasury has issued an OFAC Advisory to the Maritime Petroleum Shipping Community, titled “Sanctions Risks Related to Shipping Petroleum and Petroleum Products from […]
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Turkish-Cypriot Tensions Rise As Turkey Explores Natural Resources in Eastern Mediterranean
August 07: Two Turkish drill ships are continuing operations in the eastern Mediterranean and another ship will join them this month, Energy Minister Fatih Donmez said, as a dispute over […]
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Vietnam, China Embroiled in South China Sea Standoff
July 17: Vietnamese and Chinese ships have been embroiled in a weeks-long standoff near an offshore oil block in disputed waters of the South China Sea, which fall within Vietnam’s […]
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Suspicious Sighting of Coastal Patrol Craft With Armed Men off Bayelsa, Nigeria
July 18: At approx. 05:00 UTC, a fishing trawler reported that a coastal patrol craft with armed men was seen 7.3 nm off floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) SEA […]