Oil stations in Hadhramaut Valley resume work after arresting terrorist Al Kathiri

English - Saturday 06 March 2021 الساعة 11:05 am
Shibam, NewsYemen, Exclusive:

The stations of the Yemeni Oil Company in the Shibam district in the Hadhramaut governorate, southeast of the country, have resumed their work after they were stopped due to threats from the leader of Al-Qaeda, Qaboos bin Talib Al-Kathiri, before his arrest in a qualitative operation in which American and Yemeni forces and others from the Arab coalition participated.

The arrested terrorist leader, Qaboos Al-Kathiri, had threatened to set fire to the Yemeni Oil Company’s fuel stations in Hadramout Valley if it did not stop selling derivatives to citizens, and as a result the stations stopped operating.

Citizens' cars lined up in long lines in front of the oil company’s stations, on the first day of the resumption of the process of pumping fuel to the citizens ’cars, especially since the areas of the Hadramawt valley and desert are suffering from a suffocating fuel crisis.

The reopening of the Shibam model station and the governmental Hotat Ahmed bin Zain station comes after the arrest of the leader of Al Qaeda, Qaboos Al Kathiri, who is considered the most dangerous terrorist leader in Hadramout governorate and responsible for many assassinations.

The model station of Shibam of the Yemeni Oil Company, which was inaugurated in mid-May 2017, is the largest government station in the directorates of the valley and the desert in terms of storage capacity of one million and 800 thousand liters of oil derivatives, including one million and 350 thousand liters of diesel and 450 thousand liters of oil.

In addition, citizens were pleased with the reopening of the two government stations, but they expressed their anger at the repeated increase in the prices of petroleum and diesel, which reached in one month for three consecutive doses amounting to 500 Yemeni riyals per liter for both materials, and commercial stations in the private sector and merchants for about 800 Yemeni riyals per liter.