FSO Safer - Wikipedia
WEBFSO Safer (pronounced "saffer" / ˈ s æ f ər /) [1] is a floating oil storage and offloading vessel that is moored in the Red Sea north of the Yemeni city of Al Hudaydah. Prior to being emptied, the ship held more than 1.14 million barrels of oil.
Yemen: UN concludes removal of one million barrels of oil ... - UN …
WEBAug 11, 2023 · FSO Safer. A UN-led operation to remove over one million barrels of crude oil from a rusting supertanker off Yemen safely concluded on Friday, preventing the immediate threat of a massive...
Oil from "FSO Safer" supertanker decaying off Yemen's coast …
WEBJul 25, 2023 · Cairo — An international team began siphoning oil out of a decrepit oil tanker off the coast of Yemen on Tuesday, the United Nations chief said, a crucial step in a complex salvage operation...
FSO SAFER: Ship-to-ship transfer of oil to tanker Yemen - IMO
WEBUnder a United Nations-coordinated initiative, the ship-to-ship transfer of more than 1.1 million barrels of oil from the decaying floating storage and offloading unit FSO Safer to a replacement tanker, the Yemen, was completed in August 2023, to avert a potential environmental disaster..
UN Plan for FSO Safer | United Nations - الأمم المتحدة
WEBMoored off Yemen’s Red Sea coast, the FSO Safer is a decaying supertanker that could have spilled more than a million barrels of oil into the Red Sea. The result would have been an...
The Yemen Oil Tanker That Threatens Environmental Disaster - TIME
WEBMay 14, 2021 · Experts say the rusting FSO Safer risks becoming the “biggest man-made oil-related disaster ever recorded.” Here's how it got there
Safer - United Nations Development Programme
WEBUN Plan for the FSO Safer Tanker. Act now to prevent a catastrophic oil spill in the Red Sea. After months of preparation and coordination, the United Nations and partners have begun a high-risk operation to prevent a humanitarian and environmental catastrophe off the coast of Yemen.
FSO Safer: New deal to secure oil tanker abandoned off Yemen - BBC
WEBHouthi rebels have agreed to allow a UN mission to inspect and secure an abandoned oil tanker off Yemen's Red Sea coast, the UN has announced.
UN begins salvage operation to stop catastrophic oil spill off Yemen - BBC
WEBMay 31, 2023 · A salvage vessel with a crew of experts reached the FSO Safer on Tuesday. They will undertake work to make it secure for oil to be transferred to another tanker, Nautica, which is due to...
UN Press Release - Major Step Forward on FSO Safer
WEBMar 9, 2023 · UN Press Release - Major Step Forward on FSO Safer. Purchase of vessel is a critical development in operation to remove more than a million barrels of oil from decaying supertanker off...