Nigerian maritime services company (est. 2008, operating since 2010) managing the Nigeria LNG fleet; shareholders include NLNG, NNPC, Shell and TotalEnergies.
This is one of the few places offering an LNG start without experience. Junior salaries are low, senior ones acceptable; pay has been reliable with some wobbles this year. Promotion is there for the taking because most of the crew shows little interest in it. The trade-off is the relief practice: contracts of any length turn into roughly five months on board, and nobody answers the question why. Permanent terms exist — 28 leave days per month for seniors, 15 for juniors. The fleet is mostly old Moss tonnage nearing the end; the newer DFDE ships are chartered out. Since terminal, cargo and ships share one owner, there is no commercial pressure — the flip side is that nobody is in a hurry about anything, including your relief.
The fleet loads at one island terminal and the company recruits a handful of foreign officers among a large national majority. As one of five foreigners among twenty-five, I met attitudes from cold to openly hostile, mostly from peers who see you as competition; with patience a working relationship was possible with everyone. Senior officers are drawn by decent pay, and turnover among them is remarkable — Master, Chief Engineer, Chief Officer and Second Engineer regularly overstay because reliefs are not found. Meals vary with the captain. Internet is 300 MB a day. I took the contract for the Moss-type LNG experience and got it — on those terms, it was worth it.