Syria, which sells its oil to European Union countries, exported about 2.7 million tons of crude oil to the EU in 2011.
Syria, located in a critical geographical position in terms of the Middle East's oil, boasts a 1,300 kilometer-long oil pipeline as well as rich underground resources. This richness has tempted the west to divide and sell Syria’s oil and natural gas resources.
According to a report published by the Syrian Petroleum Ministry in 2011, when the war started, Syria produced 34,828,000 barrels of crude oil in the first quarter of 2011 and reached 387,000 barrels per day during the same period.
The report showing that there are 2.5 billion barrels of oil reserves in Syria is no longer accessible on the internet. Syria's official news agency SANA covered the report on May 5, 2011, and pointed out that the Ministry of Oil and Mineral Resources of Syria, which compiled the report, has removed it from all English and Arabic sources.
Syria’s petrol exports
The reports of energy experts confirm the official figures for the resources in Syria. In 2011, nearly 400,000 oil-producing countries in the world produced more than 140 million barrels a year.
Syria, which sells its oil to European Union countries, exported about 2.7 million tons of crude oil to the EU in 2011.
Despite the fact that the rich oil resources of Syria were known, there was no breakthrough in the country until the 1950s. In 1955, the US and the Germans extracted oil from Qamishli, in northeastern Syria.
In 1962, with the help of the Soviets, it was in Rmeilan that the oil was extracted by the state company in Syria. By 1993, the average oil production in the country reached 570,000 barrels per day.
The oil exploration, extraction and operation activities in Syria were carried out by the Syrian Petrol Company (SPC). According to the 1991 data, companies from the USA, UK, Canada, Belgium, France, Germany, Spain, Japan and the Scandinavian countries joined the oil production in Syria along with the Damascus regime.
Daesh became a key player
With the beginning of the civil war in 2011, the amount of crude oil produced in Syria took a hit.
Since the end of 2012, the Daesh terrorist organization dominated the oil fields in Syria and Iraq, and then sold the oil that it withdrew in cooperation with the Damascus regime.
Daesh, which is the most important structure that the US has used to design the region, came to the scene in the following years in order to further legitimize the PKK and deliver all of northern Syria to the terrorist organization.
The Syrian offshoot of the PKK, the PYD seized many settlements along the corridor surrounding Turkey from the south under the pretext of 'rescuing the territories under the control of Daesh.’ Therefore, the oil and gas regions that were passed from the regime to Daesh have finally come under the control of the PKK.
Partitioning of Syria’s resources
Yeni Şafak announced the meeting where the decision on how to use the country's oil resources was decided. The US and the Saudi Arabian intelligence pioneered a meeting on the future of Syrian oil, and the oil resources of the country were plundered.
Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, some tribal leaders and high-ranking PKK/PYD officials from Syria also participated in the meeting.
The future of the Al-Hasakah, Raqqah and Deir ez-Zor regions, which hold 95 percent of Syrian oil and gas potential, and radical decisions about the extraction, processing and marketing of Syria’s underground resources were discussed.
At the meeting attended by US Colonel John Dorrian, it was decided to give the PKK/PYD shares in Syria’s oil and petrol resources.
A meeting was held on June 10 for the future of Syrian oil on the premise of the intelligence of Saudi Arabia and the US in Syria’s northeastern city of Qamishli, which borders with Turkey.One of the US officers who visited terrorist organizations in the Sinjar-Karachok region after Turkey’s anti-terror operation in northern Syria and spokesman for the Global Coalition to Counter Daesh Colonel John Dorrian attended the meeting.Representatives from Egypt, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia, as well as some tribal leaders from Syria and senior Democratic Union Party (PYD) members attended the meeting.The delegation gathered for the purpose of determining a common strategy for the future of Syrian oil, and decided to act jointly after Daesh.Former President of the National Coalition of the Syrian Opposition and Revolutionary Forces, Ahmed Carba, determined the tribal and group representatives from Syria and Mohammed Dahlan determined which foreign representatives would attend the meeting.Representatives agreed on a pipeline routeRadical decisions were made regarding the extraction, processing and marketing of the underground wealth of the Haseke, Raqqah and Deir ez Zor regions, which hold 95 percent of Syrian oil and natural gas’ potential.During the meeting, it was agreed that a pipeline would extend from the Humus desert to Tenef, Jordan and then to Israel to market the oil to Europe.US and British oil representatives were also present at the talks. US officials said that with the new supply line, the parties will receive the necessary share from the Syrian oil and that Iran and Russia will break down their accounts on Syrian oil with this method.Participation from TurkeyOn behalf of the 'Tayyar el Ghad Suriya Movement' (SDMK) under the leadership of Ahmed Carba, whose activities have been ended in Turkey, Ismail Bubi, a former senior figure of the organization, and Kasım Hatip from Egypt were also among those who attended the meeting.Using the Istanbul-Erbil line, the participants going to northern Iraq then moved to the Haseke-Qamishli region of Semalka Border Gate.Former SMDK member Ubeyde Nahhas, who resides in Istanbul, also took part in the negotiations on the partition and sale of Syrian oil.PKK to get a share of Syrian oilIt was decided that the Syrian offshoot of the Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK), the PYD, would receive a share of oil.US and Saudi officials expressed respect for the struggle of the PYD and promised that the PYD would get the necessary share from the petrol after.More than 30 tribal leaders, including İnize, Şeidat and Ageydat, were present at the meeting. In addition to this, armed groups such as the Ceyş el Suriy, Kuvveti Ahmed Abdo, Tehalüf el Aşari and Ahrar Şarkiwere also represented at the meeting.US sabotages Syrian regions cleared of terrorists by the Euphrates Shield OperationIran's plan to form a terror corridor reaching the MediterraneanRussia says Daesh struck PYD/PKK deal to leave Raqqah
Syria's oil and gas to be divided
PKK handed reservoirs, agricultural land
The terrorist organization PYD/PKK, which occupies 23 percent of the Syrian territory, seized the largest three reservoirs of the country with the military support of the US. The dams on the Euphrates River have the capacity to provide the majority of the electricity and irrigation needs of the country.
According to map area measurements, the PYD/PKK occupies approximately 39,500 square kilometers of Syria, with an area of approximately 185,000 square kilometers.
The terrorist organization controls Tashrin in the east of Aleppo, Tabka and Baas in the western part of Raqqah. The large farmland stretching from Aleppo's east to the Iraqi border can be irrigated by the reserves of these three reservoirs.
Sixty percent of the agricultural land in the country, equivalent to 30,000 square kilometers, is located in the region under the control of the PYD/PKK.
PKK/PYD occupies 65 percent of the Syrian-Turkish border
The terrorist organization also dominates 9.4 percent of irrigable agricultural land in Syria. Eighty percent of the area is watered by the dams under the control of the PYD/PKK.
The three dams controlled by the terrorist organization occupy have the capacity to provide about 70 percent of Syria's electricity needs. The PYD/PKK controls territories along Turkey’s border with Syria, including Haseke in the east, Manbij and Afrin.
The terrorist organization occupies about 65 percent of the Syrian-Turkish border.
PKK controls Syria’s barrages
The Tişrin dam, captured by the PYD/PKK in December 2015 from Daesh, has the capacity to produce 630 megawatts (MW) annually.
The dam, which has a storage area of about 40 meters long, offers watering facilities to Manbij and Kobani.
In the west of Raqqah, the dam from the town of Tabka was taken over by the PYD/PKK on May 13. The Tabka dam has a large energy and irrigation infrastructure with an annual production of 824 MW and a 60-meter accumulation basin called the al-Assad Lake.
The al-Assad lake, which has an area of 630 square kilometers, is Syria's largest water reserve. The Tabka dam is capable of holding 10 square kilometers of water capacity, as well as providing drinking water for the Aleppo city center, Manbij and Kobani all the way to the border of Iraq.
Another dam, which was captured by the PYD/PKK in the context of the Raqqah operation conducted with US support, is the Baas dam in the northern part of Tabka. The dam, which has been under the terrorist organization’s control since June 4, has the capacity to produce 75 MW of energy annually.
The United Nations has only limited access to besieged areas of Syria, and humanitarian supplies -- even diapers -- which make it through are often looted by the country’s military, according to a UN coordinator.Speaking exclusively to Anadolu Agency, Kevin Kennedy said the UN was feeding at least a million people a month, with convoys reaching Syrian opposition areas through Turkey and Jordan.However, the UN had “very limited access” to besieged areas inside Syria from other locations inside the war-torn country.“We do not get sufficient approval from the government of Syria to run these convoys,” he said, describing how medical and surgical supplies were taken by soldiers.“There are about 18 million people in Syria. Our estimate is over 13 million are in need of some form of humanitarian assistance -- a large portion of the population, and often more than once,” he added.Kennedy said there were over four million people in Syria who could be considered as living under siege and were hard to reach.“That is, our ability to access these people is either zero or limited. As you know, hundreds of thousands of people have been killed and many more wounded [in Syria],” he added. “It’s a very difficult situation.”
UN figure describes looting of Syria aid
Syrian regions cleared of terrorists through Turkey’s Operation Euphrates Shield have now become subject to terror plots.After the joining of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)-affiliated Democratic Union Party’s (PYD) areas and counties in the Euphrates was blocked, the US started to provoke terror groups in the region.In the regions liberated from terrorist organizations to the north of Aleppo, conflict erupted in April.There were violent clashes between groups of the Free Syrian Army (FSA), including the Sultan Murad Division, Ahrar Songya, Faylaq al-Sham, Al-Fawj Al-Awal, Shamia Front, Liwa al-Hamza and Ahrar Al-Sham.More than 70 opposition soldiers lost their lives in clashes between the groups. The number of opposition fighters who were injured in conflict in the same period was 165.The ongoing conflicts in the north are fueled by the Pentagon and CIA-backed groups. An official from the FSA spoke to Yeni Şafak and evaluated the recent clashes.A great effort is being shown to cause clashes between the FSA and the Turkish Armed Forces (TAF), the source said.The opposition commander, who indicated that the conflicts between the groups were governed entirely by external forces, said that the conflicts in the north were aimed at destabilizing the region.The source claimed that both the Pentagon and the CIA as well as Western powers were involved in the issue.The primary target is to provoke the people by making them anxious and to aggravate the public against Turkey, the opposition commander said.The commander added that the aim was to force the TAF to withdraw from the region so the PYD can takeover.As the clashes between the opposition groups continued, approximately 60 opposition fighter joined the ranks of the Assad regime, including Abdullah Şileys, who was the commander of the Sultan Murad Division and had the codename Abul Khair.Eight members of the opposition fighters joined the PYD terrorist organization.Şileys allegedly surrendered information regarding the TAF’s activities in the region, including documents and photographs, to General Suheyl Hassan of the regime’s army.Turkey’s operation in northern Syria successfully concluded in March.Turkey had been carrying out a military operation in northern Syria. Led by FSA fighters, the operation aimed to improve security, support coalition forces and eliminate the terror threat along the Turkish border.Russia says Daesh struck PYD/PKK deal to leave RaqqahCoalition airstrikes, PYD/PKK kill 45 in Syria’s RaqqahUS resupplies PKK/PYD terrorists in northern SyriaUS to send more arms to PKK/PYD in Syria
US sabotages Syrian regions cleared of terrorists by the Euphrates Shield Operation
Over 42,000 Syrians have returned to Jarabulus in northern Syria since the town was liberated from Daesh, according to a Turkish official at the migration office on Thursday.People have been returning to their homes in the town, which lies just across the Turkish border, ever since the Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) freed it in August last year.The Syrians who went back included women and children; they were brought to Jarabulus after undergoing security checks at the Karkamis customs gate in Gaziantep, an official at the Gaziantep migration office in southern Turkey, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on talking to the media, said.Turkish Red Crescent sends $700M in aid to SyriaAn average of 200 people a day have been returning to Jarabulus from Turkey, the official added.FSA fighters on the border have been helping civilians go to Jarabulus; so far, 42,406 civilians have reportedly returned.Operation Euphrates Shield, which began in late August last year and ended in March, 2017, was aimed at eliminating the terrorist threat along the Turkish border with the use of the FSA, backed by Turkish artillery and air cover.Since the civil war erupted in Syria in 2011, Jarabulus had been controlled by Daesh and intermittently by the PKK/PYD terrorist group.
Over 42,000 Syrians return to Syria from Turkey