Asala loots Hadramout’s oil under US company’s patronage

HADRAMOUT, Sept. 27 (YPA) – Large quantities of Yemeni crude oil were transferred on Sunday from a vessel named ‘Asala’ to another tanker called ‘Adrin,’ departing from the Qusayr coast on the Arabian Sea in Hadramout province.

Sources familiar with the matter said the crude oil transfer was carried out under commercial cover provided by a US company operating in Yemen, under the supervision of Abdulhafiz al-Alimi, the son of Saudi-backed presidential leadership council’s head Rashad Al-Alimi, in an attempt to circumvent announced measures and positions concerning the management of Yemen’s oil resources.

The developments come amid the continued implementation of a decision issued by Sanaa in October 2022 to halt crude oil exports from areas under Saudi control, following warning military attacks aimed at curbing export operations through the Al-Dhaba port in Hadramout and Al-Nashima port in Shabwa, both overlooking the Arabian Sea.

Sanaa-based government maintains its rejection of the looting of Yemen’s natural resources, considering them the property of the Yemeni people.

It stresses that oil revenues should be allocated to paying the salaries of all government employees whose payments have been suspended in areas under the control of the Sanaa government since the decision to transfer management of the Yemeni central bank from Sanaa to Aden at the end of 2016.

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