FSO Safer - Wikipedia
FSO Safer (pronounced "saffer" / ˈsæfər /) [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 …
Aug 11, 2023 · The FSO Safer will eventually be towed to a shipyard and scrapped. The Secretary-General reaffirmed the UN’s commitment to fully complete the operation, which has an overall cost of over $140...
FSO SAFER: Ship-to-ship transfer of oil to tanker Yemen - IMO
Under 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..
Oil Removal FSO Safer - Royal Boskalis Westminster NV
Aug 29, 2023 · Constructed in 1976 as an oil tanker and converted in 1987 to be a floating storage facility, the Safer is single-hulled and is believed to contain an estimated 1.14 million barrels of light crude oil.
UN Plan for FSO Safer | United Nations - الأمم المتحدة
Moored 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...
Oil from "FSO Safer" supertanker decaying off Yemen's coast …
Jul 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...
How the UN ended up rescuing a stranded vessel in the Red Sea
Jul 26, 2023 · There has been no further investigation into the state of the FSO Safer, a stricken tanker anchored just 4.8 nautical miles off the Yemen coast, meaning the risk of a massive oil leak...
UN’s Yemeni oil tanker operation: What you need to know
Jul 16, 2023 · An FSO Safer supertanker off Yemen’s coast could break or explode and trigger a catastrophic oil spill, if left as is.
FSO Safer operation - IMO
Aug 17, 2023 · IMO has played a key supporting role in the United Nations-coordinated initiative aimed at preventing an oil spill from the FSO Safer, which has been moored off the coast of Yemen since 1988, serving as a floating storage and offloading unit.
UN Press Release - Major Step Forward on FSO Safer
Mar 9, 2023 · Purchase of vessel is a critical development in operation to remove more than a million barrels of oil from decaying supertanker off Yemen’s Red Sea coast. Funding still urgently needed to complete...