Saudi Arabia Stealing 65% of Yemen’s Oil in Collaboration with Total: Report
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A Yemeni economic expert revealed that Saudi Arabia is looting his country’s crude reserves in bordering regions in cooperation with the French energy giant, Total.
“63% of Yemen’s crude production is being stolen by Saudi Arabia in cooperation with Mansour Hadi, the fugitive Yemeni president, and his mercenaries,” Mohammad Abdolrahman Sharafeddin reported to FNA on Tuesday.
“Saudi Arabia has set up an oil base in collaboration with the French Total company in the Southern parts of Kharkhir region near the Saudi border province of Najran and is exploiting oil from the wells in the region,” he continued.
Sharafeddin stated that Riyadh is purchasing arms and weapons with the petro dollars stolen from the Yemeni people and supplies them to its mercenaries to kill the people of Yemen.
Late in last year, another economic expert said Washington and Riyadh had bribed the previous Yemeni government to abstain from oil drilling and exploration activities, adding that Yemen possesses more oil reserves than the entire Persian Gulf region.
“Saudi Arabia has signed a secret agreement with the US to prevent Yemen from utilizing its oil reserves over the past 30 years,” Hassan Ali al-Sanaeri said to FNA.
“The scientific research and assessments conducted by international drilling companies show that Yemen’s oil reserves are more than the combined reserves of all the Persian Gulf states,” he added.
Al-Sanaeri stressed that Yemen has plentiful oil reserves in Ma’rib, al-Jawf, Shabwah and Hadhramaut governorates.
He pointed out that a series of secret documents by Wikileaks exposed that the Riyadh government had set up a committee headed by former Saudi Defense Minister Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdel Aziz. “Former Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal and the kingdom’s intelligence chief were also the committee’s members.”
Al-Sanaeri went on to state that Saudi Arabia has tasked the committee to implement the project of digging a canal from Saudi Arabia to the Arab Sea via Hadhramaut in order to become needless of Hormuz and Bab al-Mandab strategic straits.
He reiterated that new oil reserves have been discovered in Yemen’s al-Jawf province, which can make Yemen as one of the major oil exporters in the region and the whole world.
Source: American Herald Tribune