It shows the moment of theft of the US army tanks for Syrian oil

Sputnik correspondent in the Syrian province of Hasakah obtained photos and a video documenting the moment a convoy of vehicles and tanks belonging to the US army stole oil from one of the wells and supply stations of the Syrian government’s Al-Hasakah Oil and Gas Fields (Rumailan) Directorate, in the northeast of the country.

The “Sputnik” camera detected a group of American tanks and vehicles carrying out oil and gas filling operations from the wells located between the villages of (Swaidiyah Muhammad Al-Dahham) and (Swaidiyah Muhammad Al-Olayan) in the countryside of the town of Al-Yarubiyah near the (Syrian-Iraqi) border in the far east of Al-Hasakah Governorate, in order to transport them. Directly into the territory of the northern Iraq region (Iraqi Kurdistan).

And the Hasakah Oil and Gas Fields Directorate in (Rumailan) includes one of the largest illegal US military bases in Syria, and it is the first air base established by the US army in the country, after it seized its (Tal Hajar) agricultural airport, to then develop it to suit Huge aircraft landing and takeoff movement.

The correspondent indicated that hundreds of vehicles and tanks belonging to the US army, on a daily basis, fill crude oil and natural gas from fields and wells of the Hasakah Oil Directorate, two barrels that extend over large areas of the north and northeast regions of Hasakah Governorate, and then transport them by land towards the illegal (Al-Walid) crossing with the region Northern Iraq, or through the pipeline that was extended between the wells and between the lands of the Iraqi region, through the bottom of the Tigris River, which forms a natural separation between the Syrian and Iraqi lands in the far north-east and west of the two countries.

The governor of Syrian Hasaka, Major General Ghassan Khalil, revealed in a previous statement to “Sputnik” that the American occupation, in cooperation with its aides from the “Qasd” militants, was continuing to steal Syrian oil and gas, while plundering large quantities of wheat and smuggling it through the illegal outlets towards northern Iraq. Some of them are passed on to the areas controlled by the terrorist “Jabhat al-Nusra” and the “Turkmen” factions in Idlib, in northern Syria, via Turkish territory.

Governor Khalil said, “The American occupation and its aides work within the so-called unjust” Caesar Act “, which aims to humiliate the Syrian people with their livelihood and steal their natural resources, indicating that they steal between 140 thousand to 150 thousand barrels per day from the Syrian oil fields under their control. In the governorates of Hasaka and Deir Ezzor. ”
The oil fields and wells of Al-Hasakah Oil Directorate are located in the far northeast of Syria, where the national production of oil began in 1968, within the fields of (Al-Suwaydiyah – Karachuk – Hamza – Alyan – Sazaba – Lilak) and the number of workers therein before the outbreak of the war in Syria more than 5000 workers, as well. The Directorate includes (Training Center for Qualifying Technical Personnel – Medium Institute for Oil and Gas – Oil Vocational High School), and the Fields Directorate carries out all works from drilling wells to processing oil produced and delivering it to the Syrian Company for Oil Transportation and Storage. The directorate also has an integrated injection project for stratified water separated from oil. It also owns 6 drilling rigs and 13 production rigs.

The Directorate is affiliated with the associated gas plant in Swedish (the Directorate of Gas Investment) and was put into service in 1984 and includes the accompanying gas plant in which the associated gas is processed from the first – second – third – fourth stations of Rumailan, and the free gas stations, which are: (Rumailan station) The gas plant – Triassi Al Suwaidia – Audi gas – Hamza), and the plant produces (domestic gas, clean gas, utility gas, free gas, hydrocarbon liquids and sulfur)

Syria’s production of crude oil in 2010 reached nearly 360,000 barrels per day, of which 100,000 barrels per day came from the fields of the Hasakah Oil Directorate, two barrels in the northeast of Hasakah Governorate. As for wheat, Hasakah governorate produced nearly one million tons annually, and Syria was considered A country that exports oil and wheat, while today it has become an importer of oil and wheat, and it is facing great difficulty in securing them due to Western and American sanctions according to the unjust “Caesar Act”.