Carrying over 1.1m barrels of oil, the FSO Safer was abandoned off Yemen's Red Sea port of Hudaydah after the civil war broke ...

An abandoned tanker carrying more than one million barrels of crude oil could contaminate vast areas of the Red Sea in a ...

"Given that the vessel is a large, heavily laden oil tanker, now immobilised and on ... The Sounion recalls the danger posed by the FSO Safer supertanker, a 48-year-old ship with a corroding ...

An accident risks leaking four times as much oil as during the 1989 Exxon ... barrels of crude were transferred from the FSO Safer, an abandoned tanker, to another tanker in the Red Sea.

The FSO Safer, a 1970s-era tanker that had been converted by the Yemeni government into an offshore oil platform, is moored off the central Yemeni city of al-Hudaydah, unmaintained and rapidly ...

Last Wednesday, the Houthi rebels of Yemen attacked the Greek oil tanker MV Sounion as she carried 150,000 tonnes ... hand-wringing and indecision…whilst hoping for the best. See FSO Safer. As ever, ...