Oil from deteriorating tanker moored off Yemen has been transferred, UN says

Senior United Nations official says a salvage team has siphoned oil from the decaying tanker moored off the coast of Yemen (Osamah Abdulrahman/AP)

The transfer of 1.1 million barrels of oil from an aging tanker moored off the coast of war-torn Yemen has been completed, avoiding an environmental disaster, the United Nations said.

An international team began siphoning the oil from the dilapidated vessel known as SOF Safer on July 25. All of the oil is now aboard a replacement tanker called Nautica.