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尼日利亚海域发生致命爆炸,表明世界各地老化的油船构成了威胁







Patrick Aganyebi, a maintenance operator aboard the Trinity Spirit oil ship, holds up his ID card in his home in Igbokoda, Nigeria, on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022. Days after being hospitalized from the injuries they sustained escaping the fire on the Trinity Spirit, Aganyebi and his colleague Pius Orofin learned they were being sent to jail, accused of co<em></em>nspiring to commit “Murder, Arson, and Malicious Damage,” according to charging docu<em></em>ments. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)





Pius Orofin, a deck operator aboard the Trinity Spirit oil ship, speaks during an interview at his home in Okitipupa, Nigeria, on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022. The Trinity Spirit’s surviving crew members have been plagued by ailments long after their escape from the fire. Orofin’s hearing is damaged, and he has a long scar on his leg. Not long after that vivid night, still in the throes of recovery, he and colleague Patrick Aganyebi were taken to jail for 19 days. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)





Patrick Aganyebi, a maintenance operator aboard the Trinity Spirit oil ship, sits for a portrait in his home in Igbokoda, Nigeria, on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022. It was the dead of night when the Trinity Spirit caught fire, Aganyebi remembers, but the flames made it seem as bright as day. Mo<em></em>nths afterward, his eyes were still damaged from the glare. He tucked his phone and ID card in his pockets, strapped on a life jacket and made his way to the upper deck, and as the flames barreled toward him, prepared to jump nearly 100 feet (30 meters) into the sea. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

老化的外壳







FILE - Technical vessels are seen by the decrepit Safer tanker on Monday, June 12, 2023, off the coast of Yemen. The Safer was built as a tanker and later co<em></em>nverted into a floating storage unit. Maintenance on the ship ended in 2015. By 2020, seawater had seeped into the Safer's engine room, corroded pipes and damaged the vessel beyond repair. (AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman, File)





FILE - This 2019 photo provided by I.R. Co<em></em>nsilium shows internal decay of the FSO Safer and the lack of a functio<em></em>ning cathodic protection system, moored off Ras Issa port, Yemen. The Safer had posed an enviro<em></em>nmental threat since 2015, as it decayed and threatened to spill its co<em></em>ntents of 1.14 million barrels into the Red Sea and Indian Ocean. After years of alarm and negotiations, the Safer’s oil was transferred o<em></em>nto another tanker in August. (I.R. Co<em></em>nsilium via AP, File)





FILE - Technical vessels are seen by the decrepit Safer tanker on Monday, June 12, 2023, off the coast of Yemen. The Safer had posed an enviro<em></em>nmental threat since 2015, as it decayed and threatened to spill its co<em></em>ntents of 1.14 million barrels into the Red Sea and Indian Ocean. After years of alarm and negotiations, the Safer’s oil was transferred o<em></em>nto another tanker in August. (AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman, File)







Pius Orofin, a deck operator aboard the Trinity Spirit oil ship, left, and Patrick Aganyebi, a maintenance operator, sit for an interview in Okitipupa, Nigeria, on Monday, Sept. 5, 2022. Not long after being hospitalized from the injuries they sustained escaping the fire on the Trinity Spirit, Aganyebi and Orofin learned they were being sent to jail, accused of co<em></em>nspiring to commit “Murder, Arson, and Malicious Damage,” according to charging docu<em></em>ments. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)







This combination of photos provided by Pius Orofin, a deck operator aboard the Trinity Spirit oil ship, shows rusted areas of the ship moored 15 miles off the coast of Nigeria, in November 2021. The ship, used to store and refine large quantities of oil extracted from the ocean floor, caught fire on Feb. 2, 2022. The three survivors of the Trinity Spirit's explosion - Orofin, Patrick Aganyebi and Lawrence Yorgolo - told the AP of the lack of safety procedures on the ship and of equipment failures. (Pius Orofin via AP)







Patrick Aganyebi, a maintenance operator aboard the Trinity Spirit oil ship, walks through his neighborhood in Igbokoda, Nigeria, on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022. Aganyebi says it was by the grace of God that he and two fellow crewmen escaped that night from the Trinity Spirit, a rusting ship anchored 15 miles (24 kilometers) off the coast of Nigeria that pulled crude oil from the ocean floor. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)







Patrick Aganyebi, a maintenance operator aboard the Trinity Spirit oil ship, walks through his neighborhood in Igbokoda, Nigeria, on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022. Aganyebi says it was by the grace of God that he and two fellow crewmen escaped that night from the Trinity Spirit, a rusting ship anchored 15 miles (24 kilometers) off the coast of Nigeria that pulled crude oil from the ocean floor. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

在美联社确认的30多艘比三位一体精神号更古老的船只中,漂浮在埃及海岸的扎法拉纳号。它已经服役54年,是仍在服役的最古老的fpso之一。紧随其后的是马来西亚和巴西的fpso,它们都至少有半个世纪的历史。

在“Trinity Spirit”号起火地点以南约200英里(320公里)的尼日利亚海岸,这艘名为Mystras的FPSO已经服役47年了,尽管行业报告指出该船存在结构性问题。三年前,船级社DNV终止了与“神秘人”号的定期检查。根据Rystad Energy的说法,最初的设计计划只运行到2014年。

Mystras的所有者NNPC有限公司没有回应美联社的置评请求。

在更远的内陆,“三位一体精神”号幸存的船员只能勉强维持生计,等待他们说从未支付过的工资。由于爆炸的强光,Aganyebi的视力很差;奥罗芬的听力因噪音而受损。他腿上有一道长长的伤疤。两人都在监狱里呆了19天。

约戈洛是唯一没有被指控犯罪的幸存者,他从燃烧的船上跳下来时仰面摔倒,当渔民把他拉上船时,他已经失去了意识。他认为,他之所以没有被列为嫌疑人,只是因为他因脊柱受伤在医院住了几个月。

去年10月,在ondo州司法部审查了此案后,这些指控被撤销。在与美联社的谈话中,这些人强烈否认纵火或非法储存石油。他们把爆炸归咎于他们的雇主谢巴,以及多年来船上没有维修。

对于Aganyebi来说,很明显公司很久以前就抛弃了三位一体的圣灵。

“在那艘巨大的船上没有医务人员,没有安全官员,没有无线电员,”他说。

在尼日利亚海岸外,这艘船仍然清晰可见——一分为二,一半沉入水中。就在去年9月,卫星图像显示,石油似乎正在从沉船地点泄漏。目前还不清楚当局何时会消除危险或打捞剩余的石油,因为这艘船正在慢慢地向海里下沉。

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美联社记者Michael Biesecker在华盛顿、Sarah El Deeb在贝鲁特和Chinedu Asadu在尼日利亚阿布贾对本文也有贡献。

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