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"The transfer of more than 1 million barrels of oil from an ageing tanker
moored off the coast of war-torn Yemen has been completed, avoiding an
environmental disaster, the UN has said.
In a statement on Friday, Farhan Haq, the deputy spokesperson for UN secretary
general António Guterres, said the operation had prevented a “monumental
environmental and humanitarian catastrophe”.
An international team began siphoning the oil from the dilapidated vessel known
as FSO Safer on 25 July. Almost all the oil is now aboard a replacement tanker
called MOST Yemen.
Before the transfer the Safer, which Yemen used as a floating storage and
offloading facility, held four times as much oil as was spilled in the 1989
Exxon Valdez disaster off Alaska, one of the world’s worst ecological
catastrophes, according to the UN.
International organisations and rights groups warned for years of the potential
for a spill or an explosion involving the tanker, which had not been maintained
and has damaged pipes and seawater in its engine compartment.
“Today we can say that the United Nations and a remarkably broad group of
partners have succeeded in preventing the worst-case scenario of a catastrophic
oil spill in the Red Sea,” David Gressly, the UN humanitarian coordinator in
Yemen, said."
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