{"id":4392,"date":"2013-05-29T03:27:06","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T03:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disnaija.com\/nigeria-news\/12-missing-after-chevrons-tug-boat-sinks\/"},"modified":"2013-05-29T03:27:06","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T03:27:06","slug":"12-missing-after-chevrons-tug-boat-sinks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/12-missing-after-chevrons-tug-boat-sinks\/","title":{"rendered":"12 Missing After Chevron\u2019s Tug Boat Sinks"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A tugboat contracted by oil giant Chevron has sunk off the coast of Nigeria, leaving 12 sailors missing, an official said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

“I can confirm the incident. It was on Sunday morning,” said Corrie van Kessel, a spokeswoman for Sea Trucks Group, which owns West African Ventures Limited, operator of the vessel.<\/p>\n

“12 crew members … There is a big rescue operation in progress at the moment,” she added, specifying the 12 missing were the vessel’s entire crew.<\/p>\n

She could not confirm the nationalities of the sailors aboard the Jascon 4, which sank some 15 nautical miles off southern<\/p>\n

Nigeria’s Escravos, the site of a Chevron oil terminal.<\/p>\n

Nigeria is Africa’s biggest oil producer, with Chevron among the major operators in the country.<\/p>\n

Van Kessel said it was not yet clear what caused the accident. The vessel had been involved in towing operations for a tanker, she said.<\/p>\n

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