BUCHAREST, Aug 22: Romanian oil firm Grup Servicii Petroliere (GSP) said on Tuesday one of its offshore rigs in the Gulf had reported coming under fire from an Iranian military ship and being boarded by troops.
Dubai-based Oriental Oil Company, which chartered the drilling rig from GSP, said the Orizont platform was the subject of a legal dispute between the two companies and an Iranian court had ordered it to remain in Iranian waters.
GSP spokesman Radu Petrescu told Reuters: “We were called by one of our employees at 9.15am local time, who told us a military ship opened fire against the Orizont rig, and by 9.45 Iranian troops got on board.—Reuters
