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…
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…
Iran seized an oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz. The US Navy says that Iran’s Revolutionary Guards seized a Panamanian-flagged oil tanker in the middle of the Strait of Hormuz. It should be noted that this is the second incident of Iran seizing an oil tanker within a week. According to the US Navy,…
Iran seizes Marshall Islands oil tanker in Gulf of Oman According to the US Navy, the Iranian Navy has seized an oil tanker off the Marshall Islands. The US Navy further says that the Iranian Navy’s action in the Gulf of Oman is against international law. The US Navy is monitoring the situation of the…
The FSO Safer has been moored off the west coast of Yemen for over three decades but has not been properly maintained since war erupted across the country in 2015 between Government forces, backed by a Saudi-led coalition, and Houthi rebels. The decrepit ship has been described as a “time bomb” because it could leak,…
MANILA: An oil tanker sinking in the Philippines has spilled oil into the sea, prompting a fishing ban in 7 cities. According to the Associated Press, oil has spilled into the sea as a result of the sinking of an oil tanker in the Philippines. There were 800,000 liters of oil in the tanker. are…
