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Washington steals over 80 percent of Syria's oil output per day
The losses incurred by the trafficking campaign surpass $100bln, according to Syria's oil ministry
News Desk
AUG 04, 2024
The Syrian Oil Ministry released a statement on 9 August accusing US forces occupying Syria of being responsible for the theft of most of the country’s oil.
“The amount of oil production during the first half of 2022 amounted to some 14.5 million barrels, with an average daily production of 80.3 thousand barrels, of which 14.2 thousand are delivered daily to refineries,” the oil ministry’s statement said.
The statement went on to say that “US occupation forces and their mercenaries,” referring to the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), “steal up to 66,000 barrels every single day from the fields occupied in the eastern region,” amounting to around 83 percent of Syria’s daily oil production.
According to the ministry’s data, the Syrian oil sector has incurred losses nearing “about 105 billion dollars since the beginning of the war until the middle of this year” as a result of the US oil theft campaign.
Additionally, the statement added that alongside the financial losses incurred by the oil sector were “losses of life, including 235 martyrs, 46 injured and 112 kidnapped.”
On 10 August, footage filmed by a Russian attack helicopter was released on social media, showing a convoy of trucks operated by the US military, smuggling stolen oil destined for Iraq, out of Raqqa
Recently, the US army, which currently occupies northeast Syria, has been consistently
looting the country’s oil and smuggling it into their bases in Iraq through several illegal border crossings.
Local sources in Syria’s Hasakah governorate reported on 6 August that the US army
looted and smuggled dozens of oil tankers out of the country, making it the
second stolen oil shipment by the US that week.
Nearly 200 tanker trucks filled with looted oil were smuggled out of Syria by US troops in July alone, as Washington has intensified its practice of stealing Syrian resources to sell abroad.
In infamous comments made in 2019, former US President Donald Trump said: “We’re keeping [Syria's] oil. We have the oil. The oil is secure. We left troops behind only for the oil.”
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Until April, US company Delta Crescent Energy (DCE) was operating in northeast Syria as part of Trump's pledge to "keep" the oil in collaboration with the SDF.
Despite the White House allowing the DCE waiver to expire, US troops continue to occupy the country's oil fields.
In a letter to Congress on 8 June, US President
Joe Biden confirmed that a "small presence of United States Armed Forces remains in strategically significant locations in Syria to conduct operations, in partnership with indigenous ground forces."
On 19 July, Russian President Vladimir Putin
called on the US government to stop its consistent looting of Syria's natural resources.
The US military is also responsible for
plundering the country’s wheat, exacerbating an acute
food crisis that is plaguing Syria and the rest of West Asia.
