On August 4, a massive and devastating 2700-ton ammonium nitrate blast in Beirut shocked the world. Shortly after, Yemenis reminded the world that the decaying floating storage vessel, FSO SAFER, could cause a wide-spread disaster around the Arabian Peninsula.

The giant Floating Storage and Offloading (FSO) facility called the FSO SAFER is moored off the coast of Yemen, in the Red Sea, where it has been left unattended since 2015.

2023年6月14日 · An operation is finally underway to transfer the oil from a stricken tanker off the coast of Yemen that maritime salvage experts have called a “ ticking time bomb.” The decrepit vessel has...

2022年8月28日 · The FSO Safer, one of the largest oil tankers ever built, is moored in the Red Sea to the north of Yemen’s principal port and fourth-largest city, Al Hudaydah. For years, it operated as a floating storage facility for the crude oil that flowed in …

2023年7月20日 · The deteriorating condition of the FSO SAFER is a ticking time bomb that threatens to worsen the humanitarian crisis in Yemen and trigger an environmental disaster. You can’t just leave a million-plus barrels of oil sitting in a tanker like this.

2025年1月6日 · FSO Safer’s structure, equipment and operating systems are deteriorating, leaving the tanker at risk of springing a leak, exploding or catching fire. With 48 million gallons of oil on board, the UN warns a potential leak would be four times bigger than the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster off the coast of Alaska, considered the world’s worst oil ...

The FSO Safer, one of the world's largest oil tankers is rusting away in the Red Sea. A disaster will happen if countries don’t act quickly.

2023年7月29日 · The three-week, $143 million operation got underway on Tuesday to defuse what experts have dubbed a ticking time bomb. Had the condition of the stricken FSO Safer been allowed to...

A ticking time bomb An emerging challenge, which can make Yemen’s current predicament even worse, is the potential break up of the FSO Safer, which is rightfully called a ticking time bomb. A partial or full oil spill from the FSO Safer would have devastating humanitarian, environmental and economic consequences in Yemen,

2020年6月29日 · Amman, Jordan — Yemen's raging civil war has created a ticking time bomb just off the country's Red Sea coast. The FSO Safer, a 45-year-old supertanker loaded with more than 1 million...