Decaying oil tanker near Yemen could trigger humanitarian disaster

Environment 11 October 2021

By Graham Lawton

Safer, an abandoned lipid tanker moored disconnected the seashore of Yemen successful the Red Sea

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A immense abandoned lipid tanker anchored disconnected Yemen could unleash a catastrophic lipid spill successful the Red Sea, bringing starvation and decease to the region, according to an investigation of the imaginable wellness impacts of specified a disaster.

The tanker, called Safer, is anchored astir 9 kilometres disconnected the seashore of Yemen. It is owned by Yemen’s nationalist lipid company, The Safer Exploration & Production Operations Company (SEPOC), which erstwhile utilized it to store crude oil. …

Article amended on 11 October 2021

We corrected the magnitude of lipid the tanker is holding