Aden government sells 3.5 million barrels from Hadramout crude oil

ADEN, Oct. 31 (YPA) – The coalition-backed Aden government has resumed to sell a shipment of crude oil from Hadramout province estimated at 3.5 million barrels at a price less than 30% of the Brent price.

An oil geologist and associate member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG), Abdul-Ghani Gaghman, affirmed on Monday in his post on X that the government of Maeen Abdul Malik deposited the value of the shipment in the Central Bank’s accounts at Dubai Islamic Bank on October 21,2023.

He added that the government exported the shipment through the Dabbah oil port in Hadramout, located on the Arabian Sea in eastern Yemen.

Gaghman described the government of Maeen Abdulmalik as a failure and corruption, without the “Yemeni Press Agency” being able to confirm the authenticity of what Gaghman circulated by communicating with the relevant authorities in the Sanaa government.

This comes at a time when activists are posting on social media that the government loyal to the coalition, in coordination with the UAE, is smuggling Yemeni crude oil via oil ships by hiding the coordinates of the GPS navigational tracking system to the port of Al-Dhaba in Hadramout and Al-Nashmiya port in Shabwa province.

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