Gunmen intercept oil shipment in Marib, burn one of the oil tankers

MARIB, Oct. 16 (YPA) – Tribal gunmen on Wednesday morning intercepted an oil shipment from Marib province in the east of Yemen’s Shabwah province, local sources reported

According to the sources, the tribal gunmen intercepted an oil shipment after it left the “Safer” oil fields, northeast of Marib.

They said  that the gunmen burned one of 10 tankers, while the rest continued on their way, but it was not clear what  motivated the gunmen to intercept and burn the oil tanker.

A source at the Yemen’s Safer oil company said that the company resumed crude oil exports on Wednesday for the first time since the operation was halted by the war in early 2015.

The source explained that a quantity of 5,000 barrels of crude oil, shipped from the fields of Safer to the area of “Ayadh” in Shabwah province, to be pumped from there through the oil pipeline to the port of Al-Hashimah in the same province, in preparation for export.

Crude oil exports from the Safer fields, which produced nearly 200,000 barrels of oil per day in early 2015, were halted due to the war.

E.M