On September 26, 2023, the process of removing fuel from the tanker was completed. The disintegrating oil tanker FSO Safer could have been a humanitarian and environmental disaster.

Production and maintenance of the tanker ceased in 2015 due to the eight-year conflict between the pro-government Saudi-led coalition and Houthi rebels. At the time, Safer had 1.13 million barrels of crude oil on board, and if anything went wrong, it could potentially create the fifth-largest tanker oil spill in history, containing four times the amount spilled by the Exxon Valdez off Alaska in 1989.