A former Yemeni ambassador has revealed on Sunday the secrets of a so-called fundraising campaign to maintain the Safer floating oil storage unit, warning of a dangerous conspiracy.
Political analyst and former ambassador Abdullah Salam al-Hakimi, warned of the claims to repair the Safer oil tank in Hodeidah, the intimidation campaign of using the environmental disaster that will result of it were to sink, and the collection of global donations for it.
منذ الآن نحذر وننبه ان الغرض من دعاوى اصلاح خزان النفط صافر في الحديده والتهويل من الكارثة البيئية التي ستنتج عن غرقه،وجمع تبرعات عالمية لاجله،هو التآمر لنقله من مكانه الى مكان آخر للاستيلاء عليه وحرمان اليمن من تصدير النفط عبره في حال اعادة سيطرتها على حقول النفط بمارب!
— عبدالله سلام الحكيمي (@goshamyam) June 12, 2022
Al-Hakimi pointed out that the aim of collecting donations for the maintenance of the floating reservoir is “to conspire to move it from one place to another, seize the reservoir and deprive Yemen of oil exports ij case the Yemenis regain control of the oil fields in Ma’rib.
ولو لم يكن في الامر خدعة للاستيلاء على خزان صافر النفطي،فان مجموع التبرعات العالمية الموعود بها لاصلاحه تكفي لشراء خزان نفطي جديد مماثل لصافر في السعة التخزينية،المهم ان صافر اذا ارادوا اصلاحه ففي مكانه لايتحرك ابدا او لا يتحرك الا بوصول خزان جديد يحل محله في مكانه!!
— عبدالله سلام الحكيمي (@goshamyam) June 12, 2022
The Safer petroleum storage unit has been in a state of decay due to severe lack of repairs ever since the Saudi invasion of Yemen in 2015 made it impossible for Yemeni engineering teams to conduct necessary upkeep. Despite repeated calls to the United Nations to take up its responsibility in ensuring the repairs, much needed works still remain undone. If the Safer were to leak or sink, this would likely cause an oil spill disaster of cataclysmic proportions destroying much of the ecosystem of the Red Sea.