Oil Tankers & OBO's

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Thanks for sharing that with us Keith , seems to be a niche field to keep you busy , strange how what was at one point drudgery turns back time where the good times come to the fore eh Keith .
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Update: FSO Safer No Longer an Environmental Disaster Waiting to Happen, Dispute Remains Over Oil

The FSO Safer is now considerably safer. A United Nations operation to transfer more than one million barrels of oil from the decaying floating oil storage vessel into another ship off the coast of Yemen has been completed. Removal of the oil began around July 14, 2023, and concluded on August 11, 2023.

The discharge of the oil from the decrepit vessel has been years in the making. In 2021, we posted that for several years, the FSO Safer, moored in the Red Sea north of the Yemeni city of Al Hudaydah, was a likely environmental disaster waiting to happen.

The ship was being held as a virtual hostage in the ongoing Yemeni civil war. A converted 400,000 DWT ultra-large crude carrier (ULCC), built in 1976, the ship contained about 1.1 million barrels of oil valued at up to US$80 million. The ship had been progressively deteriorating due to a lack of maintenance and supplies, and many were concerned that the Safer was in imminent risk of sinking, fire, or explosion.
Continues at - https://www.oldsaltblog.com/2023/08/upd ... more-60783
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