NOGUEIRA tanker 1979

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Built as a ULCC tanker under yard no 102 by Setenave, Setubal, Portugal for Soc. Portugesa de Nav Tanques, Portugal, (SOPONNATA). Lisbon.
December 1975 keel laid down
02 April 1978 launched as the NOGUEIRA. (walnut tree)
Tonnage 163, 349 grt, 323,114 dwt, dm. 346.2 x 57.40 x 28.50m, draught 22.35m. Length bpp 334.2m.
Powered by one steam engine, 26117 kW, speed 16 knots.
03 August 1978 completed, IMO 7385112, Homeport Lisbon.

1986 Sold to Rigel Shipping Corp. Gibraltar and renamed BT BANKER.
1989 Sold to Bulk Transport Ltd. Gibraltar, not renamed.
1990 Sold to Bulk Transport Ltd. Stavanger, Norway and renamed BERGE BANNER.
1998 Company was renamed in Bergesen d.y. Shipping A/S, Stavanger, not renamed.
2003 Sold to Oceanic Transport Shipping, Saudi Arabia, renamed in FOLK SUN.

(FSO) in 2004 for further operation. Assigned to the Oguendjo oil field off Gabon. Owned by Perenco Oil & Gas Gabon SA, Gabonese subsidiary of the French oil company Perenco SA. Renamed in FERNAN VAZ.
2023 Sold as is in Gabon for demolition in India. 260 US$ per ton. The terms of sale include a clause requiring the selected shipbreaking yard to have been delivered a statement of compliance with the standards of the Hong Kong Convention by Nippon Kaiji Kyokai

The Portugeuse PTT gives by the stamp:

Oil Tanker NOGUEIRA 1979-1986 Soponata — Sociedade Portuguesa de Navios Tanques, Lisbon The supertanker Nogueira was one of the largest Portuguese ships ever and the first of its kind built in Portugal (by Setenave), albeit to a Swedish design. It entered service in 1979 as the second of three vessels in Soponata’s ‘N’ class — NEIVA, NOGUEIRA, and NISA. It proved an excellent ship, confirming the shipyard’s prediction in 1979 that it would ‘sail like a charm.’ It was sold in 1986 for financial reasons but continued to sail for major international shipowners until 2005. Confirming the excellent quality of its construction, the ship was then repurposed for floating crude oil storage (FSO — Floating, Storage, Offloading) and, under the name FERNAN VAZ, served off the coast of Gabon until 2023. It is due to be recycled in 2024.

Source: Miramar, Shipbreaking 70 December by Robin des Bois.
Portugal 2024 1.20 Euro sg?, Scott?