Update: FSO Safer No Longer an Environmental Disaster Waiting to Happen, Dispute Remains Over Oil

The FSO Safer is now considerably safer. A United Nations operation to transfer more than one million barrels of oil from the decaying floating oil storage vessel into another ship off the coast of Yemen has been completed.  Removal of … Continue reading

Update: UN Plans to Salvage Oil from FSO Safer Off Yemen

CNN reports that the United Nations has released a plan to offload 1 million barrels of oil off FSO Safer, a floating oil storage and offloading vessel, that has been moored off the coast of Yemen for more than 30 years. … Continue reading