Reliance Sikka Port Ship collides with BPCL facility in US

01 Mar 2024

The oil tanker Hafnia Seine, en route from Sikka port in Western India to the United States, had collided with Bharat Petroleum Corp's (BPCL) crude import facility on Sunday. The tanker, transporting alkylate, a gasoline-blending fuel for Reliance Industries' US unit from a refinery in Jamnagar, Gujarat, had hit the peripheral structure of the single point mooring (SPM). The extent of the damage remains unknown at this time.

There is no vessel currently scheduled to discharge at the SPM. It's noteworthy that BPCL possesses a single point mooring at Sikka for importing crude to its Bina refinery in central India.

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