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Most of the oil on board a rusting supertanker off war-torn Yemen has been moved to a replacement vessel in a bid to avert a catastrophic spill, the United Nations has said. The transfer of 1.14 million barrels of Marib light crude from the 47-year-old FSO Safer to the new vessel started last week. ..
Most of the oil on board a rusting supertanker off war-torn Yemen has been moved to a replacement vessel in a bid to avert a catastrophic spill, the United Nations has said."More than half the oil aboard the decaying FSO Safer has been transferred to the replacement vessel Yemen in the past seven days," the UN resident coordinator for Yemen, David Gressly, said on social media on Tuesday.
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Work begins to transfer oil off the decrepit FSO Safer, but US Special Envoy for Yemen Tim Lenderking says further progress toward peace will require Yemenis talking to one another.
The United Nations said Tuesday that a long-awaited operation has begun to remove more than a million barrels of oil from an aging supertanker off Yemen's Red Sea coast, averting a potential environmental disaster. "As of this morning, we are very pleased to report that the pumps are on, the pipes have been laid between the FSO Safer and the Yemen — the replacement tanker — and the first gallons of oil have in fact been pumped off the Safer onto the Yemen," U.N. Development Program Administrator Achim Steiner told reporters. The ship-to-ship transfer will continue around the...