Sahara Upstream has put a new 380,000-barrel tanker into service at OML 18, adding capacity to one of Nigeria’s most closely watched onshore oil blocks as the company works to tighten evacuation logistics and cut emissions tied to vessel downtime.
The tanker, MT D Adesanya, is a Medium Range vessel with capacity of more than 62,000 cubic metres of crude. It will operate as a second mother vessel at OML 18, working alongside MT D Bayero to receive crude from shuttle vessels in the field before the oil is transferred to the Floating Storage and Offloading facility, FSO Cawthorne.
The vessel is named for Debola Adesanya, who ran Sahara’s Kenya operations and helped build the company’s presence across East Africa before his death on May 1. Company executives described the naming as a deliberate choice — a working asset rather than a plaque, one that will move crude for years.
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