The meticulous effort onboard the rusting FSO Safer spanned months of preparation and nearly 13 weeks of execution by the SMIT salvage team, which was contracted by the UN Development Programme (UNDP). “The UN and the broad group of partners that support the Safer project have so far succeeded in preventing the worst-case scenario of…
UN Secretary-General António Guterres welcomed the news of the successful transfer of oil aboard the FSO Safer to a replacement vessel, thus “avoiding what could have been a monumental environmental and humanitarian catastrophe.” The FSO Safer was built as a supertanker in 1976 and converted a decade later into what is in effect a floating…
The task of transferring a million barrels of oil from the stricken supertanker Yemen, will take some 19 days – preventing what would be the fifth largest spill in history, were the rusting tanker to break apart. But this process will not end with the oil transfer, because the FSO Safer will continue to pose…
The 19-day operation will pump more than one million barrels out of the rusting vessel, the Safer, which was abandoned over eight years ago, to a nearby replacement vessel. Secretary-General António Guterres said the UN has taken on the delicate operation as a spill would spell environmental catastrophe for the region. ‘Ticking time bomb’ “United…
An Indonesian coast guard boat conducts an inspection near the Iranian ship MT Arman. Indonesian coast guards seized an Iranian oil-laden ship. The oil tanker named ‘MT Armaan 114’ contained 272 thousand 569 metric tons of crude oil worth 304 million dollars. Indonesia’s Maritime Security Agency says the oil tanker was transferring oil to another…
Bandar Abbas Oil Refinery, file photo A fire broke out in the oil refinery of the city of Bandar Abbas in Iran, according to the Iranian news agency, there was a fire in the storage tanks of the oil refinery. This oil refinery is located in the south of Iran, in a video released on…
Carrying over 1.1 million barrels of oil, the supertanker FSO Safer was abandoned off Yemen’s Red Sea port of Hudaydah after the civil war broke out in the country in 2015. Since then, the vessel has deteriorated significantly in absence of any servicing or maintenance, prompting fears of a major environmental disaster. According to David…
bill to: The Taliban government in Afghanistan has started the process of extracting oil from wells in the north of the country. According to Afghanistan’s official media Bukhtar News Agency, the Acting Minister of Mines and Petroleum, Sheikh Shahabuddin Dilawar, while addressing the ceremony, said that the employment of technical and non-technical personnel for oil…
It was agreed that the payment will be made in the currencies of friendly countries, Minister of Energy. Photo file Moscow: Russia has said that it has not given any special concession to Pakistan in the purchase of oil. According to a US media report, Russia has said that it has started exporting oil to…
Iran’s oil cargo, file photo Despite US sanctions, Iran’s oil exports hit a new milestone in 2023. According to the foreign news agency, consultants, shipping data and sources related to the matter have confirmed this. Iran’s crude oil exports stood at 1.5 million barrels per day in May, the highest since 2018. Oil exports were…
