Wednesday, August 31, 2022

Foreign oil tanker approaches Shabwa to loot Yemeni oil: Sanaa

ByNews Desk- The Cradle

Over 12 million barrels of Yemen's oil were looted between January and June of 2022

The Yemeni Oil Ministry said on 30 August that an oil tanker approached the Al-Nashima port in Shabwa province to loot huge quantities of Yemeni crude oil.

The oil tanker set to load about one million barrels of Yemeni crude oil from the Al-Nashima port, the oil ministry claimed.

Reportedly heading to Yemen from China, the oil tanker could load 105,000 tons of crude oil, according to the ministry. A source pointed out to Al-Mayadeen that “the looting of Yemeni oil from Al-Nashima port comes at a time when Shabwa province is experiencing a stifling fuel crisis.”

Last week, the leader of the Ansarallah movement, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, said that all the (Yemeni) oil and gas revenues are now looted by the coalition of aggression, thieves, and occupiers, while traitors relish it.

Al-Houthi urged the authorities in Sanaa to step up efforts to provide an alternative to the looted Yemeni oil and gas revenues since “liberating oil facilities is not a simple matter in light of the unjust siege.”

Weeks ago, the head of the Supreme Political Council in Yemen, Mahdi al-Mashat, condemned “what the mercenaries of the US-Saudi aggression are constantly looting the Yemeni people’s oil and gas wealth, depositing cash in the National Bank of Saudi Arabia.”

During a meeting with Shabwa province Undersecretary for Oil and Gas Affairs, Hassan al-Harthy, Al-Mashat said the Yemeni people suffer from “the lack of services and the interruption of salaries, in the wake of the brutal US-Saudi aggression and the unjust siege imposed on our country.”

Sanaa accused the Saudi-led coalition on 28 August of destroying 2,995 water facilities since the beginning of the war in 2015, including dams, barriers, pumps, tanks, irrigation channels, and irrigation networks.

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