French shipbroker Barry Rogliano Salles (BRS) believes tankers have escaped any immediate blow from the explosion and partial sinking of the Nigerian floating production offloading and storage (FPSO) Trinity Spirit on 4 February.
But the disaster in which seven crew members are thought to have died dealt a further blow to Nigeria’s fragile upstream and shows problems with lack of investment that could limit crude exports on bigger vessels, the company argued.
