Stena Bulk is in the process of selling a suezmax tanker built after 2000 for demolition.
Managing director Erik Hanell confirms the Samsung built 151,000-dwt Stena Spirit (built 2001), which is owned on a 50/50 basis with Teekay Shuttle Tankers, has been sold for green recycling.
The ship is thought to have fetched $10.5m to $11m.
When the tanker was put up for sale in June, Haanell ruled out a demolition sale for the time being.
The Stena Spirit was put up for sale with the sistership Nordic Spirit (built 2001) which is wholly owned by Teekay.
Both ships, which have dynamic positioning capabilities, have come off charters to Brazil’s Petrobras.
In June, Hanell said it was a possibility to run the Stena Spirit in the Stena Sonangol suezmax pool, but that has not happened.
Teekay director Axel Wiedenmann said: “We are looking at different commercial options for Nordic Spirit and no decisions have been made as of yet.”
The ship has been at anchor in Colombo since early June.
The two ships were bought from Bergen-based Viken Shipping in November 2003 for $53m each.
A Norwegian-controlled combined carrier, the 109,000-dwt SKS Torrens (built 1999) has been sold for demolition to India for guaranteed green recycling, sources say.
The ship, which belongs to Bergen-based SKS Tankers, part of the Kristian Gerhard Jebsen Group, has fetched $445 per ldt or $8.2m.
SKS chief executive Geir Mjelde says he does not speak to the press and Jan Pedersen, the head of the Jebsen Group, did not respond to requests for comments.
SKS Tankers tends to keep its ships until they are 20 years old. It has three other aframax OBOs that are built in 1999.
Last year it sold the sistership SKS Tuela (built 1997) for demolition.
