The specialist team that safely stabilized and transferred over one million barrels of crude oil from a decaying supertanker off the cost of Yemen, left the site on Monday, marking the end of a pivotal chapter in the UN-led operation to prevent a potentially disastrous oil spill in the Red Sea.

FSO Safer was abandoned off Yemen’s Red Sea port of Hudaydah after the civil war broke out in the country. Holm Akhdar
FSO Safer was abandoned off Yemen’s Red Sea port of Hudaydah after the civil war broke out in the country. Holm Akhdar

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