A Frontline tanker has delivered the first cargo of a new Nigerian crude that could bolster West African vessel markets.

Analytics firm Kpler said the John Fredriksen company’s 157,200-dwt Front Seoul (built 2019) loaded the Utapate oil in July and arrived in Cartagena, Spain on Wednesday.

The vessel appeared to have refuelled in Las Palmas in the Canary Islands en route, with Spanish refiner Repsol the charterer.