Pirates attacked an oil production vessel off Nigeria in the early hours of 2 July and kidnapped nine Nigerian nationals, the ship’s owner BW Offshore said.
The Sendje Berge ship was undergoing maintenance when the attack happened, BW Offshore’s Chief Financial Officer Staale Andreassen told Reuters.
The Oslo-listed company said none of the people remaining on the vessel were injured.
“We are working now with the Nigerian authorities to get those nine people safely back,” Andreassen added.
The vessel, a floating production, storage, and offloading vessel that can produce about 50,000 B/D, was working at the Okwori oil field operated by Addax Petroleum, a part of China’s Sinopec Group.