Posted on Dec 18, 2020
Abandoned tanker containing 1 million barrels of oil could cause ‘devastation’ in Red Sea,...
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An oil tanker which has been abandoned since 2015 is deteriorating, seeping oil and could cause an environmental catastrophe if the 1 million barrels of crude it contains becomes a more serious spillage.
The vessel, called the Safer, is decaying in the Red Sea north of the Yemeni city of Al Hudaydah, where access is controlled by the Houthi faction.
The inactive ship was a storage and offloading unit and currently contains four times as much crude oil as was spilled by the Exxon Valdez in 1989 when 11 million gallons of crude oil went into Alaska's Prince William Sound.
It was the worst oil spill in US history until the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010.
The vessel, called the Safer, is decaying in the Red Sea north of the Yemeni city of Al Hudaydah, where access is controlled by the Houthi faction.
The inactive ship was a storage and offloading unit and currently contains four times as much crude oil as was spilled by the Exxon Valdez in 1989 when 11 million gallons of crude oil went into Alaska's Prince William Sound.
It was the worst oil spill in US history until the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010.
Abandoned tanker containing 1 million barrels of oil could cause ‘devastation’ in Red Sea,...
Posted from independent.co.uk
Oil
Oil and Energy
Yemen
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GySgt Gary Cordeiro
Economics, the vessel was used as floating storage, a common practice. Placing tariffs on products from “terrorist” countries, no market, piece of crap vessel that is obsolete for ballast water .dry dock cost over a million, cheaper to dump it, any place , any time.
This happens here in the SF Bay estuary. Boats of all shapes and sizes are grounded and abandoned.
This happens here in the SF Bay estuary. Boats of all shapes and sizes are grounded and abandoned.
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Terrible, big oil has been the worst caretaker of environmental stability, bar none.
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GySgt Gary Cordeiro
It will, India takes abandoned ships off their shores and cuts them up for scrap metal.
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
GySgt Gary Cordeiro SGT Jim Ramge, MBA If a Long Enough Cease Fire Occurs in Yemen maybe someone can address this Problem.
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