2023-07-25 16:29:59
Pumping operations to transfer more than a million barrels of crude from a dilapidated tanker off war-torn Yemen, in a bid to avert an oil spill, began on Tuesday and are expected to last regarding three weeks, the UN said.
“The United Nations has begun an operation to defuse what might be the biggest ticking time bomb in the world,” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a statement.
“A complex operation is underway in the Red Sea, off the coast of war-torn Yemen, to transfer one million barrels of oil from FSO Safer to a replacement vessel,” he added.
47 years old, the FSO Safer, transformed into a floating storage and unloading terminal, has been moored since the 1980s off the strategic port of Hodeida (west). Its maintenance was interrupted in 2015 with the war that plunged the country into one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world.
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