An accident on an oil ship operating in a Total field off Nigeria’s coast threw three workers overboard and one remained missing on Monday, company officials said.
The accident occurred on Saturday when a crane collapsed on the Jack Ryan drill ship in the Akpo offshore field, officials from French company Total said on condition of anonymity.
Two of the three workers were rescued after being thrown overboard.
Production was temporarily shut down on the Transocean ship, but has since been restarted, one of the officials said. The cause of the accident was unclear.
Total’s Akpo field had been producing up to 170,000 barrels per day recently, according to one of the Total officials.
Total is among the major producers in Nigeria, the world’s eighth largest oil exporter.
Transocean was also the owner of the BP-leased Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico, where an explosion earlier this year led to the biggest oil spill in US history.