Almotamar.net - SANAA- Director-General of the Yemeni Establishment of Oil and Gas Ahmed Abdulqader Shaie said operation of pumping crude oil from the oil terminal in al-Dhabbah is going on normally and according to programs of shipping and loading prepared beforehand and as agreed on with world companies purchasing crude oil, whether from the share of the state or that of partners. Mr. Shaie indicated that the Singaporean oil tanker Park Way has today entered the oil terminal of Dhabbah to be loaded with the quantity of oil agreed upon and other oil tankers are schedule to reach the terminal for loading in line with the shipping schedule. The same situation is concerning the exportation of crude oil shipments from the oil terminal in Ras Issa.

The DG of the Oil Establishment affirmed in a statement published by Saba news agency that operations of exportation and shipping and activities of oil terminals have not been affected by the abortive terrorist attempt that was foiled by security authorities, indicating that plans and programs of contracting and selling for the coming period are carried out according to their plan under atmospheres of security and stability our country is currently enjoying.

Security authorities have on Friday morning aborted two failing terrorist suicide attacks with four car bombs targeting oil storages of oil installations in al-Dhabbah in Hadramout governorate and the oil refinery and gas production unit in the area of Safer in the governorate of Marib. The targeted oil storages in al-Dhabbah contain around four million barrels of oil while the production capacity of household gas unit in Marib amounts to 800 tons per day.

An official source in the General People’s Congress (GPC) warned leaderships of the Joint Meeting Parties (JMP) against resorting to practicing acts violating the law, whose consequences will be against the homeland and the democratic process. The source made linking between speeches of the JMP’s candidate Faisal Bin Shamlan on oil and his instigating of the citizens in his electoral festivals held in Hadramout, Marib, Shabwa and the terrorist operations that targeted oil and gas installations in Marib and Hadramout. The source also conveyed the GPC condemnation of those terrorist acts and the party’s demand from security authorities for quick investigation into background and complications of those criminal acts and the sides behind them and to arrest the perpetrators and send them to public court so that all the Yemeni people will know the directing and acting sides of such terrorist acts aimed at all the people and trey to defame our homeland and offend it.
The source said the information address of the JMP in its parties’ press and the speeches of its candidate in the electoral festivals have set oil wealth a main target of the JMP electoral campaign as if those parties do not realize that the wealth is the property of the entire people and there is no space for critics and outbiders from the JMP leaderships to obtain any illegal gains whatever were the ways of extortion or pressure. The source also expressed regret for the JMP’s practices through the process of intentional deformation of Bin Shamlan picture and attributes that to the GPC. He said those practices are considered the beginning of the parties of the JMP defeat especially that the ones who committed those acts have been identified