India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi was on hand to mark the first shipment of crude from a big new offshore field.
The leader waved off Shipping Corp of India’s 73,400-dwt LR1 Swarnu Sindhu (built 2010) at a ceremony in Bihar.
The vessel took the first cargo from the floating production, storage and offloading vessel Armada Sterling V at the deepwater Krishna Godavari field 22 km off the coast of Andhra Pradesh.
