“SAFER” enters the “pre-disaster” stage.

Sana’a | The technical condition of the ship “Safer”, which floats off the Ras Issa oil port, north of the Yemeni city of Hodeidah, has deteriorated to a pre-disaster level. The ship, which has been carrying more than 1.1 million barrels of Saffar Light crude since early 2015 without regular maintenance, has started seeping into the sea at high speed. This occurs when the valves to prevent water leaks and the water suction devices out of work, due to the stoppage of the boat resulting from the prevention of the coalition of aggression, since the beginning of November 2016 to supply the boat with diesel that It is used to operate the internal equipment of the ship.

A shipping source in Al-Hodeidah governorate confirmed to Al-Akhbar that the ship’s local technical team is trying to prevent an environmental catastrophe that will have major repercussions and affect all the Red Sea countries. He indicated that there is more than one danger that threatens the ship. The first is the leakage of water into the ship, and the other is the depletion of inert gas that prevents the ship from catching fire or completely exploding, preventing any maintenance from being carried out before the ship is unloaded. of oil shipment to deactivate the hazard as necessary before performing the maintenance procedure. The source claimed that the local maintenance team has been trying for days to prevent large amounts of seawater from escaping into the ship by erecting sponge barriers around the ship to prevent the spread of water in all its aspects. But he believes this traditional process will not last long unless urgent intervention is performed before it is too late. The source denied the existence of an oil spill currently in large quantities, but indicated that there was a slight leak that began days ago from tank No. 3, and did not rule out the development of the risk of this leak.
Sources from the Yemeni oil company “Safer”, which owns the ship, recently confirmed that the ship is in the real danger stage, and demanded the prompt unloading of the oil ship, and requested a ship equipped with all the equipment to remove the quantities of oil as a necessity to avoid the risk of explosion of the ship, before we talked about Maintenance.

On Wednesday, the Yemeni special technical team held a virtual meeting with the UN team of experts

In the capital Sanaa, the ship’s Yemeni technical team held a virtual meeting with the UN team of experts on Wednesday to discuss emergency developments. The meeting was attended by the Minister of Petroleum of the government of “National Salvation”, Ahmed Abdullah Dar, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Hussein Al-Ezzi and the office of the UN envoy to Yemen. At the meeting, the Ministries of Oil and Foreign Relations renewed their willingness to provide all facilities to “any serious international team” in charge of maintaining the ship. The meeting reminded the United Nations of the multiple initiatives that were presented from the beginning, and highlighted the need for a positive and effective response to Sana’a’s demands, and for the international organization to send a technical team with the necessary maintenance equipment to make urgent repairs.
In recent months, Sanaa sought to solve the problem by communicating with several countries and asked China, Russia and Germany to participate in the maintenance of the ship, but eventually retracted her demands of the need for a third party to do the maintenance. A lawsuit came after it became clear to him that a technical team was unilaterally formed last year and arrived in Djibouti, granted entry visas and visited the ship, and its intelligence mission was covered by maintenance. The Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs in Sanaa Hussein Al-Ezzi, on Wednesday, renewed the commitment of the Salvation Government to provide all the facilities for urgent maintenance. Al-Ezzi had asked the United Nations to send a technical team with their supplies for maintenance, not a technical team empty-handed. In a press conference held in mid-August, he revealed that Sana’a had received information about the arrival of a UN technical team for a single day, considering it as evidence of their lack of seriousness.
According to diplomatic sources in Sanaa, on August 15, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Sanaa granted entry visas to the international special technical team, and there is no longer any justification for the United Nations to avoid its responsibility. The source noted that Sanaa had abandoned all excuses from the United Nations and the aggressor countries on the issue, but since the entry visas were granted, the talk about the UN technical team and their visit to the ship has disappeared.

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