Failure in Safer Floating Tank [Archives:2000/31/Local News]

Official sources mentioned that a technical failure on board the floating tank “Safer” sailing in the Red Sea, offshore Ras Issa could have caused a huge fire had the fault not been detected in time. It is not known whether any damage has virtually occurred.
The sources said that the Minister of Oil & Mineral Resources, Mr. Mohammed al-Khadem, moved to the area together with Ministry and Hunt engineers to be close to the incident.
The floating tank which supplies fuel to ships has a loading capacity of 4 million barrels pumped from Safer in Marib to Ras Issa. Any defect could have been catastrophic.
The source further said that sale and pumping of oil was not effected ; but would not specify the size of loss, if any. It only said that the Minister issued his instructions for maintenance and provision of ancillary tanks.

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