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The ship-to-ship transfer of the oil from the FSO Safer to the replacement oil tanker Yemen (formerly known as Nautica) began last week. It was an important milestone in this United ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The United Nations on Tuesday said an operation was underway to transfer one million barrels of oil off the supertanker FSO Safer ...

The UN has begun a 19-day operation to extract oil from a 47-year-old decaying supertanker as it seeks to end a race against time to avoid a catastrophic oil spill. The tanker, called Safer, has been ...

Cairo — An international team began siphoning oil out of a decrepit oil tanker off the coast of Yemen on Tuesday, the United Nations chief said, a crucial step in a complex salvage operation aiming to ...

Boskalis announced recently that, through its subsidiary SMIT Salvage, the company reached an agreement with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) for oil removal from the FSO Safer moored off ...

Saudi Arabia warned the United Nations this week of an oil slick 30 miles off Yemen's western coastline. According to a letter sent by the Saudi ambassador to the U.N. to the head of the Security ...

'The United Nations-led operation has prevented what could have been an environmental and humanitarian catastrophe on a colossal scale'. The United Nations (UN) has successfully completed the transfer ...