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The supertanker, with more than a million barrels of oil, has been deteriorating since 2015, leading to fears of a catastrophic spill. The United Nations has started pumping oil off a decaying vessel moored off Yemen’s Red Sea coast, averting a potential spill and environmental disaster, UN officials have said. The FSO Safer – a floating storage and offloading tanker …
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 …
