News - Yemen: Minister of Oil and Minerals, Ahmed Daris, confirmed Sunday, that the Saudi backed government is looting and stealing oil in all governorates and is responsible for illegally renting Yemeni islands.

Minister Daris explained that in 2018, oil production amounted to 18 million barrels of crude oil, in 2019 more than 29 million barrels, in 2020 more than 31 million barrels, and in 2021 31 million barrels of crude oil.

He pointed out that the production of crude oil in the occupied areas since the beginning of the year has reached only five million barrels.

The Minister of Oil said that the total production of looted oil until the end of February in these four years and two months amounted to 116 million barrels of crude oil.

He added that the total value of the oil looted by the countries of aggression in all oil sectors from 2018 to February of this year amounted to eight billion 202 million and 424 thousand dollars.

"The total daily and average production at the present time for the looted oil, at a minimum, is 87 thousand and 500 barrels per day, while the monthly production is not less than 2 million and 600 thousand barrels and is not less than this number" He said.

Minister Daris noted that the looted sums are supplied to Saudi Arabia and UAE, and not even to the central bank of the Saudi backed militants of the aggression.

He stressed that the damages that affected the gas and mineral sector more than 60 billion dollars, while the total losses as fines paid by the Yemeni people 161 million 660 dollars until last year in fuel only in light of the land and sea blockade.

He pointed out that our hope for lifting the siege is on the operations carried out by the armed forces. As for the appeal to the United Nations, we have appealed thousands of times, but we did not find any response.

He also pointed out that all agreements with companies say that the only legal center is in Sana'a with its name, location and mailbox, and any departure from this mechanism drops the legal status of any transactions.

The coalition of aggression continues to piracy, detaining fuel ships, and preventing them from entering the port of Hodeidah, despite obtaining permits from UN, which aggravates the humanitarian catastrophe due to the suspension of many vital service sectors, especially hospitals, electricity, water, cargo trucks, as well as waste trucks.
 
Since June 2020, the aggression and its allied government have continued to prevent fuel ships from entering the port of Hodeidah, except for a few ships that entered the port with a large time difference between each ship. Most of the ships left the place where they were being held by the forces of aggression, with their full cargo, after accumulating delay fines, exceeding the price of the cargo.
 
A suffocating fuel crisis in all governorates is experienced under the authority of Sana’a. Most of the important vital sectors, especially the health sector, are threatened with suspension, while work has been disrupted in many productive and service sectors, which caused economic losses of millions of dollars.
 
The fuel stations announced that their stocks of oil had run out. Hundreds of vehicles stood in long queues in front of these stations, hoping that shipments of oil would arrive in the coming days.
 
Meanwhile, representatives of commercial power stations told subscribers in several neighborhoods of the capital, Sana'a, that these stations will have to cut off the power for hours during the day and night, as a result of the lack of diesel running these stations.