The French supermajor has gone so far as to charter a helicopter to keep tabs on a suspicious vessel, as information suggests a Nigerian piracy gang may have taken the 75,000-deadweight-tonne vessel Kerala, owned by Dynacom Tankers.
Oil and maritime security sources are monitoring two suspicious vessels, one of which is said to have breached the exclusion zone around a floating production, storage and offloading unit on a Total oilfield off Angola.
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