4.4 million barrels of Yemeni oil has been looted in the past month.
The Yemeni National Oil Company reported that the aggressor countries and their mercenaries have looted 4.4 million barrels of Yemeni oil since mid-February.
Ammar al-Azrai, chief executive of the Yemeni National Oil Company (affiliated with the Sanaa government), said today (Friday) that aggressor countries and affiliated mercenaries have seized 4.4 million barrels of Yemeni oil since mid-November.
He told Sabant News Agency that the dollar value of this amount of oil is equivalent to 303 million 600 thousand dollars (183 billion Yemeni rials). According to him, Yemeni oil thieves continue to seize oil tankers off the coast of Jizan bound for the port of Al-Hudaidah, while the tankers are licensed by the United Nations and inspected before entering Yemeni waters.
According to him, the Saudi government is confiscating these ships under the pretext of withdrawing the customs share of its employees, while the value of the tankers’ oil cargo is much higher than this.
Al-Zarai also said that on November 19, the Saudi coalition loaded the Andromida tanker with 2.4 million barrels of oil from the port of Al-Shahar in Hadhramaut to Singapore, and if we calculate the price of $ 69 per barrel, the value of this cargo is The tanker will cost 165 million and 600 thousand dollars.
He added: “The C-Trust tanker was loaded on November 17 with nearly one million barrels of oil from the port of Razum in Shabwa province. “The tanker returned to the coast of Yemen yesterday and loaded another one million barrels, and a total of 4.4 million barrels of Yemeni oil have been looted since mid-November.”
The Saudi coalition is selling Yemeni oil at a non-profit level, so that in the past month the price of the dollar in areas controlled by Mansour Hadi’s government has risen from 600 Yemeni riyals to 1,600 riyals, and food prices have risen sharply. It has become expensive. It is noteworthy that despite the siege of the Sanaa government for the past six years, the price of the dollar in the areas controlled by this government is still 600 Rials, and in recent weeks the media reported that refugees from areas controlled by the Hadi government to areas controlled by the Sanaa government.