The FSO Safer is loaded with more than a million barrels of crude oil and experts have warned of an environmental catastrophe if the vessel breaks apart. The tanker has had virtually no ...

The FSO Safer was abandoned off Yemen after a civil war broke out in the country in 2015. The U.N. issued a report that said ...

unit moored 4.8 nautical miles off the Red Sea coast of Yemen.A converted super tanker, the FSO Safer contains an estimated 150,000 metric tonnes (approximately 1.1 million barrels) of crude oil ...

The FSO Safer is loaded with more than a million barrels of crude oil and experts have warned of an environmental catastrophe if the vessel breaks apart. The tanker has had virtually no ...

Decaying vessel FSO Safer is moored off the coast of Ras ... that the Red Sea and Yemen's coastline was at risk as the Safer tanker could spill four times as much oil as the 1989 Exxon Valdez ...

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The FSO is a floating structure with the facilities to chill the gas after refining, to store it as LPG of near ambient pressure and low temperature, and to offload it onto an LPG tanker.

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The AP's investigation found at least eight other FPSOs that have been shut down in the past decade due to safety issues or a worker's death. One ship, FSO Safer off the coast of Yemen ...