A vessel carrying thousands of barrels of crude oil from one of Ghana’s oilfields has mysteriously disappeared from the country’s territorial waters.
Officials of the state-owned Ghana National Petroleum Corporation, GNPC, received an emergency call from the oil rig where the vessel had been operating, saying she was sailing away in an easterly direction.
She left Ghanaian waters before the country’s navy could stop her.
A statement from the Information Ministry said Interpol had been informed, and investigations had begun to locate the vessel. The statement said the storage vessel, MV Asterias, carrying nearly 74,000 barrels of crude oil, worth $2m, was last seen on 28 March moored in the Saltpond Oilfields, off the western coast of Ghana.
The MV Asterias is registered in the UK, and owned by a company called Ocean and Oil.
Its crew is Russian.
Source: GhanaWeb
