An oil production vessel exploded off the coast of Nigeria early on Wednesday with 10 crew members on board though it was not yet clear if there were any casualties or how much crude might have spilled into the sea.
Nigeria's Shebah Exploration & Production Company Ltd said in a statement on Thursday that flames had engulfed the Trinity Spirit floating production, storage and offloading vessel following the blast a day earlier.
SEPCOL, which is currently in receivership, did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the status of the vessel when it exploded. BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico was pumping tens of thousands of barrels of oil a day when it exploded in 2010. By the time the well was plugged 87 days later, some 4 million barrels of crude had flowed into the sea causing an environmental disaster.
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