Safer Tanker

The UN has announced that the decaying FSO Safer tanker off the western coastlines of Yemen has been successfully emptied of its cargo and that the rescue team has departed the site, effectively neutralizing the tanker’s threat to the Red…
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With the imminent threat of a massive oil spill in the Red Sea averted, after the transfer of more than a million barrels of oil from the decaying Safer tanker to a storage vessel, Saudi Arabia’s permanent representative to the UN on…
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Saudi ministers on Tuesday welcomed the completion of the UN’s work to remove oil from a stricken tanker in the Red Sea. The UN announced on Friday that it had successfully removed more than a million barrels from the FSO Safer, averting…
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Saudi Arabia’s ministry of foreign affairs welcomed on Friday the UN announcement that the transfer of more than one million barrels of oil from the dilapidated Yemeni tanker FSO Safer was successful, Al-Ekhbariya reported. The…
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The UN on Friday said the imminent threat of a massive oil spill in the Red Sea had been averted, after more than a million barrels of oil were successfully transferred to a salvage ship from the Safer, a decaying storage vessel moored off…
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The long-awaited operation to resolve the issue of the ageing tanker SFO Safer, currently decaying off the coast of Yemen, is set to end in the coming days, with over 96 percent of the ship’s oil cargo transferred to a replacement tanker,…
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UN-owned ship arrived off war-torn Yemen on Sunday for a risky operation to pump more than a million barrels of oil from a decaying tanker and prevent a catastrophic spill. After years of tense diplomacy between the United Nations,…
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A ship is enroute to Yemen to pump oil from the decaying Safer tanker, the UN’s official coordinator for Yemen said on Saturday. “The replacement vessel Nautica set sail from #Djibouti today at 09:45 en route to Yemen’s Red Sea coast to…
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The transfer of crude oil from a decaying tanker off Yemen will begin early next week, the United Nations said Monday of an operation aimed at preventing a damaging Red Sea spill. The 47-year-old FSO Safer, long used as a floating…
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The Supervisory Committee for the Execution of the Urgent Maintenance Agreement and the Comprehensive Evaluation of the Floating Tank “Safer” published today, Wednesday, a statement about the press interview of an American magazine with its…
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