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 a spill from that tanker would have devastated fishing communities ...

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 ...

A "floating time bomb" oil tanker left adrift in the Red Sea has ... It was feared the deteriorating FSO Safer could explode or break apart, causing a major spill. The UN said environmental ...

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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Dubai Drydocks has won a contract for the conversion of a tanker into a Floating Storage Offloading Unit (FSO). The engineering was carried out by Single Buoy Moorings (SBM) and the FSO will be ...

Analysts warn that time is running out to offload a million barrels of oil from a tanker off Yemen's coast A million barrels of crude oil need to be rescued from the decaying FSO Safer tanker ...

Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Company hands over G1 FSO to Truth Maritime Services, marking critical milestone for PTTEP’s operations in Gulf of Thailand ...

"A complex maritime salvage effort is now underway in the Red Sea off the coast of war-torn Yemen to transfer one million barrels of oil from the decaying FSO Safer to a replacement vessel." ...

Al-Monitor is an award-winning media outlet covering the Middle East, valued for its independence, diversity and analysis. It is read widely by US, international and Middle East decision makers at the ...