The transfer of more than 1 million barrels of oil from an ageing tanker moored off the coast of war-torn Yemen has been completed, avoiding an environmental disaster, the UN has said. In a statement on Friday, Farhan Haq, the deputy spokesperson for UN secretary general António Guterres, said the operation had prevented a “monumental environmental and humanitarian catastrophe”.

An international team began siphoning the oil from the dilapidated vessel known as FSO Safer on 25 July. Almost all the oil is now aboard a replacement tanker called MOST Yemen.

Before the transfer the Safer, which Yemen used as a floating storage and offloading facility, held four times as much oil as was spilled in the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster off Alaska, one of the world’s worst ecological catastrophes, according to the UN….

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/12/yemen-un-removes-1m-barrels-of-oil-from-ageing-tanker-to-avert-environmental-catastrophe