By Aziz El Yaakoubi (Reuters) - A United Nations team will have to wait several weeks to access a deteriorating FSO tanker off Yemen’s shore that is threatening to spill 1.1 million barrels of crude oil in the Red Sea, two U.N. sources told Reuters. The United Nations has warned that the Safer FSO, stranded since 2015, could spill four times as much oil as the 1989 Exxon … [Read more...]
UN Access to Decaying Yemen Tanker Could Take Weeks, Say Sources
By Aziz El Yaakoubi DUBAI, Oct 14 (Reuters) - A United Nations team will have to wait several weeks to access a deteriorating tanker off Yemen's shore that is threatening to spill 1.1 million barrels of crude oil in the Red Sea, two U.N. sources told Reuters. The United Nations has warned that the Safer, stranded since 2015, could spill four times as much oil as the 1989 … [Read more...]