Decaying vessel FSO Safer is moored off the coast of Ras ... that the Red Sea and Yemen's coastline was at risk as the Safer tanker could spill four times as much oil as the 1989 Exxon Valdez ...

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The Safer tanker, originally constructed as a supertanker in 1976 and later converted to a floating storage and offloading facility (FSO) for oil, is currently moored approximately 4.8 nautical ...

Analysts warn that time is running out to offload a million barrels of oil from a tanker off Yemen's coast A million barrels of crude oil need to be rescued from the decaying FSO Safer tanker ...

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