Recovery of Oil from Decaying Tanker Off Yemen Set to Start
Oil from the FSO Safer will be transferred to a salvage vessel to prevent a damaging Red Sea spill.
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Oil from the FSO Safer will be transferred to a salvage vessel to prevent a damaging Red Sea spill.
The United Nations announced that the transfer of petroleum from a decaying vessel off Yemen is expected to begin this week in order to prevent a potential Red Sea spill.
An FSO Safer supertanker off Yemen’s coast could break or explode and trigger a catastrophic oil spill, if left as is.
The Iran-Saudi deal likely paved the way for this, Iran has backed the Houthis in Yemen and they prevented access until now.
Jun 21, 2023 // The UN is working to avert a disaster on the aging oil tanker FSO SAFER in the Red Sea off the coast in Yemen—following a plan laid out in a Diplomatic Courier article from 2020. The progress is welcome, but follow through is desperately needed, writes I.R. Consilium's Ian Ralby et al.