A government bid to sell the empty SAFER as scrap iron for $ 10 million
English - Wednesday 11 November 2020 الساعة 04:54 pm
Aden, NewsYemen, Exclusive:
The Houthis are still lying to the world, and the Hadi government, which has not learned the lesson for the past five and a half years, is being dragged behind them with the file of potential disaster risks for the Safir Reservoir, which the United Nations is raising to the rhythm of millions of dollars.
Although the Houthi militia discharged oil from the Safir Reservoir, sold it and seized its price, with Iranian help, it continues to spread fears of an environmental and economic catastrophe exploding, through which the United Nations earned 4 million dollars last week.
After entering the accounts of the United Nations financial donations from Britain, Germany, the Netherlands and France, to secure full funding for the United Nations team of experts, the Houthis withdrew their agreement to allow the United Nations team to access the tank, and they ascended with new conditions.
Earlier, the Safer Company for Exploration and Production Operations submitted a proposal in a memorandum it submitted to the Minister of Oil, to sell the SAFER tank as scrap iron at a price of $ 10 million, according to the price of scrap iron in the global market, ruling out the possibility of selling it as a floating tank in its current state.
The floating tanker SAFER is a Japanese-made giant oil ship built in 1976, for Exxon Corporation. It is ranked second in the world in terms of weight, size and technology, with a length of 360 meters, and 34 storage tanks.
It was called "ISO Japan" before its purchase in 1986 by the Yemeni Company for Exploration and Production, for the purpose of using it as a floating port for the reception and export of Ma'rib Light crude oil. Today it is known as Ras Issa Petroleum Port, the Safir Reservoir.
The SAFER floating tank has a dwindle weight of about 400,000 tons and an estimated storage capacity of more than 3 million barrels of oil.
The ship Safer served as a floating port to receive and export oil, Marib light crude, for nearly thirty years.
Since 1987 it has been anchored at its current location in the open of the Red Sea, off the Ras Issa peninsula, 60 kilometers (37 miles) north of the Houthi-controlled port of Hodeidah.
