For eight years, a rusted, decaying supertanker, storing more than 1 million barrels of oil, has sat off the coast of the Red Sea, threatening to explode and cause one of the world's worst environmental disasters. 'This salvage operation needs to happen' The oil is being stored onboard a 47-year-old supertanker called the FSO Safer, which sits off the coast …
An FSO Safer supertanker off Yemen’s coast could break or explode and trigger a catastrophic oil spill, if left as is. The replacement vessel Nautica sailed from Djibouti, arriving at Yemen’s Hodeidah port Saturday evening, the vessel to which over 1.1 million barrels of oil will be transferred from the decaying FSO Safer supertanker. Observers have worried for years that …
The decaying 45-year-old FSO Safer has not been serviced since Yemen plunged into civil war in 2014. The decaying 45-year-old FSO Safer, long used as a floating storage platform and now abandoned off the rebel-held Yemeni port of Hodeidah, has not been serviced since Yemen plunged into civil war in 2014. United Nations officials last month warned that the ship, …
The international community should move now to prevent another disaster in a country already devastated by war. An ageing oil tanker whose structural integrity is on the verge of collapse, the Safer is a ticking time bomb that risks spilling massive amounts of crude oil into the Red Sea. Fishing communities on Yemen’s Red Sea coast, more than two million …
