• 113 oil tankers have been banned from lifting crude oil from Nigeria due to sharp practices recorded in the export.
  • This statement came from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC over the weekend.
  • The tankers, according to a document signed by Gbenga Komolafe, Group General Manager, Crude Oil Marketing Division, NNPC, were banned from entering Nigerian oil facilities and territorial waters.
  • The document obtained from Platts, a global energy trading information source, said, “The NNPC has prohibited 113 tankers from engaging in crude oil/gas loading activities in any of the terminals within the Nigerian territorial waters until further notice.”
  • The letter, Platts report showed, was dated July 15, and addressed to terminal operators in Nigeria, while the tankers were listed in an attached spreadsheet.

  • The affected vessels have also been barred from movements within the Nigerian territorial waters forthwith.

  • “Finally, enforcement of the above directives takes immediate effect pending a notice to the contrary by Government, please,” the NNPC noted.

    In view of this development,the NNPC is yet to officially make public the names and owners of the vessels.