# Kole Oil Terminal (CM KOL)

**UN/LOCODE:** CM KOL  
**Country:** Cameroon  
**Water Body:** Gulf of Guinea; North Atlantic Ocean  
**Harbor Size:** Very Small  
**Harbor Type:** Open Roadstead  
**GPS:** 4.2500, 8.5500

At around 269,000 DWT, the FSO Massango — a converted VLCC — is the heart of the Kole Oil Terminal, paired with a CALM single-buoy mooring (SBM) some 90 nautical miles off Douala in the Gulf of Guinea. This is a pure offshore crude-export facility rather than a quayside port: it loads only Kole, a medium sweet crude gathered from roughly thirty offshore fields and marketed by Perenco. Throughput is modest in shipment terms — on the order of four tanker cargoes of about 950,000 barrels per year — and the buoy can take tankers up to very large draughts. There are no container, breakbulk, RoRo or general customs-cargo operations here. Forwarders with boxed or conventional cargo should plan for Douala or the deep-water port of Kribi; Kole is relevant solely to crude-oil liftings.

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