The New York-listed tanker owner exercised an option to keep the 105,000-dwt Densa Alligator (built 2013) for one year at $17,550 per day, the company said.

The renewal rate begins in September. Scorpio is paying $16,500 per day for the first year of the charter deal with Densa Denizcilik of Turkey.

The deal was one of several extensions of chartered-in vessels disclosed in Scorpio’s second-quarter earnings report, in which the company reported a $600,000 loss from the period, reversing a $3.97m