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Yemen, UN Coordinate Efforts for Phase 2 of ‘Safer’ Offloading Process

Yemen, UN Coordinate Efforts for Phase 2 of ‘Safer’ Offloading Process

The Yemeni government began coordinating with the UN to discuss the executive plans of the second operation of removing crude oil from the rusting…

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Salvage Team Departs FSO Safer After Completing Oil Transfer Project

Salvage Team Departs FSO Safer After Completing Oil Transfer Project

The salvage team in the UN-led effort to remove the oil from the dilapidated FSO Safer departed the site on Monday, August 29, marking the completi…

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Yemen.. UN mediation between  government , Houthis to sell "Safer" oil

Yemen.. UN mediation between government , Houthis to sell "Safer" oil

UN coordinator for Yemen, David Gresley, confirms that the oil removed to a replacement vessel, amounting to about 1.1 million barrels, is "in very…

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UAE welcomes successful completion of oil unloading operation from tanker FSO Safer

UAE welcomes successful completion of oil unloading operation from tanker FSO Safer

The UAE has welcomed the United Nations' announcement of the successful operation of unloading oil from the decaying tanker FSO Safer off the coast…

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How ‘a monumental catastrophe’ was averted with offloading of Safer near Yemen’s Red Sea coast

How ‘a monumental catastrophe’ was averted with offloading of Safer near Yemen’s Red Sea coast

The news that the threat of a massive oil spill in the Red Sea has receded with the transfer of more than a million barrels of oil from the FSO Saf…

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Yemen : United Nations completes removal of oil from decaying tanker in Red Sea

Yemen : United Nations completes removal of oil from decaying tanker in Red Sea

"More than I.I million barrels of oil transferred to the replacement tanker over 18 days" At 1800 local time, the United Nations successful…

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Yemen: Rescue Operation for ‘Safer’ Enters Final Stages

Yemen: Rescue Operation for ‘Safer’ Enters Final Stages

Roughly two weeks after its initiation, the final stages of the rescue operation for the derelict oil tanker Safer, moored off the coasts of Yemen,…

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UN Completes 1st Phase of Safer Oil Transfer in Yemen

UN Completes 1st Phase of Safer Oil Transfer in Yemen

The United Nations stated the transfer of one-third of the oil from the tanker Safer, bringing the first phase of the operation to an end.…

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UN operation to remove oil from decaying Yemeni tanker

UN operation to remove oil from decaying Yemeni tanker

UN operation to remove oil from the FSO Safer, a rusting tanker moored off the coast of Yemen in the Red Sea, has successfully removed much of the…

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UN says most oil removed from decaying tanker off Yemen

UN says most oil removed from decaying tanker off Yemen

Most of the oil on board a rusting super-tanker off war-torn Yemen has been moved to a replacement vessel in a bid to avert a catastrophic spill, t…

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Yemen: 20% of the Safer oil tank was unloaded into the replacement tanker

Yemen: 20% of the Safer oil tank was unloaded into the replacement tanker

It will take about three weeks, while the World Food Program has stated that it will suspend its interventions in the field of preventing malnutrit…

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FSO Safer: Ship-to-ship transfer of oil underway

FSO Safer: Ship-to-ship transfer of oil underway

The ship-to-ship transfer of more than 1.1 million barrels of oil from the decaying floating storage and offlading unit FSO Safer to a replacement…

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How unloading of oil from FSO Safer is defusing Red Sea’s ticking ecological time bomb

How unloading of oil from FSO Safer is defusing Red Sea’s ticking ecological time bomb

The risks of an ecological and humanitarian catastrophe happening off the coast of Yemen are receding as a UN-led operation to pump more than a mil…

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Yemen welcomes new Saudi aid for Safer tanker salvage operations

Yemen welcomes new Saudi aid for Safer tanker salvage operations

The Yemeni government has expressed gratitude to Saudi Arabia for its additional 8-million-U.S. dollar assistance in the salvage operations of the…

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The UN’s milestone operation to salvage Yemen’s stricken oil tanker: Key questions answered

The UN’s milestone operation to salvage Yemen’s stricken oil tanker: Key questions answered

The task of transferring a million barrels of oil from the stricken supertanker Yemen, will take some 19 days – preventing what would be the…

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