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NIGERIA OIL VESSEL FIRE: THREE FOUND ALIVE, SEVEN STILL MISSING

NIGERIA OIL VESSEL FIRE: THREE FOUND ALIVE, SEVEN STILL MISSING
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Ekeomah Atuonwu

Following an explosion on Wednesday, the Nigerian FPSO Trinity Spirit — a floating production, storage, and offloading vessel – caught fire, but the fire was put out the next day.

The tanker was docked at the Ukpokiti Terminal, which is located on the Niger Delta’s oil-rich coast. At the time of the tragedy, the vessel had ten crew members on board.

“Three crew members have been recovered alive in the neighborhood,” said Ikemefuna Okafor, executive officer of Shebah Exploration & Production Company Ltd (SEPCOL), the vessel’s owner, late Sunday.

Okafor said that “one dead body was recovered in the area” of the vessel, although it was unclear whether it was a crew member at the time.

Trinity Spirit /NOSDRA/

According to the company’s website, the vessel had a processing capacity of 22,000 barrels per day and a storage capacity of two million barrels.

Despite being Africa’s top crude producer, Nigeria’s oil and gas industry is plagued by accidents, the most of which occur on land.

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