OMV to Evaculate All Non-Local Staff from Yemen, Standard Says

By Zoe Schneeweiss

Mar 24, 2011

OMV AG (OMV) plans to evacuate all non- local staff from Yemen, Der Standard newspaper reported, citing the Austrian oil company’s safety officer Paul Reither.

OMV will be evacuating 60 staff members and production in Yemen will be carried out by local staff, the Vienna-based paper said.

The Safer Export Pipeline in Yemen, which transports OMV oil, was damaged in an explosion last week and has yet to be repaired, Reither was cited as saying.