{"id":11556,"date":"2020-06-12T22:00:17","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T19:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/perenco-closes-in-on-asset-play-for-its-only-vlcc\/11556\/"},"modified":"2020-06-12T22:00:17","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T19:00:17","slug":"perenco-closes-in-on-asset-play-for-its-only-vlcc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/perenco-closes-in-on-asset-play-for-its-only-vlcc\/11556\/","title":{"rendered":"Perenco closes in on asset play for its only VLCC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>French oil and gas player Perenco is attempting a giant asset play, a rare move by the vintage tanker specialist.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Perenco is selling its only VLCC, the 306,000 dw <span style=\"color:#00adeb;\" class=\"mt_tooltip\" data-mturl=\"\/en\/ais\/details\/ships\/shipid:711411\/mmsi:377471000\/vessel:711411\" data-mmsi=\"377471000\" data-imo=\"9212864\" data-dwt=\"306324\" data-yob=\"2000\" data-typename=\"Crude Oil Tanker\" data-typecolor=\"8\" data-countrycode=\"VC\" data-country=\"St Vincent Grenadines\" data-info=\"Crude Oil Tanker [VC]\" data-photourl=\"https:\/\/photos.marinetraffic.com\/ais\/showphoto.aspx?shipid=711411\" data-assetname=\"BAG MEUR\" data-assettype=\"Vessel\">Bag Meur<\/span><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.marinetraffic.com\/ais\/showphoto.aspx?shipid=711411\">. A deal to offload the 20-year-old ship to Greek interests for $27m has recently fallen through and the vessel is being recirculated.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Formerly called <em>N. Topaz<\/em>, Perenco bought the tanker in March for $25m.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Perenco has years of experience with old tankers and now has a handful of floating storage units, sized VLCC down to LR1, in addition to another four trading tankers.<\/p>\n<p>splash247<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French oil and gas player Perenco is attempting a giant asset play, a rare move by the vintage tanker specialist. Perenco is selling its only VLCC, the 306,000 dw Bag Meur. A deal to offload the 20-year-old ship to Greek interests for $27m has recently fallen through and the vessel is being recirculated. Formerly called &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[5301,3198,7593,3438,120],"class_list":["post-11556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tanker-news","tag-asset","tag-closes","tag-perenco","tag-play","tag-vlcc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/11557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}