The gas crisis in Yemen .. ambiguity about the volume of local production and its revenues
English - Monday 14 March 2022 الساعة 08:50 am
Aden, NewsYemen, special:
The Yemen Liquefied Gas Company announced that it had produced more than 26,000 gas trailers during the past year 2021, in light of the worsening crisis in the provision of gas in the areas controlled by the Houthi militia and the areas under the control of the legitimate government alike.
The company's CEO, Mohsen Waheet, said, in press statements to him, that "the company produced about (26) 687 gas trailers during the past year and distributed them to all governorates of the republic according to population density."
He added, during his inauguration of the company's automated electronic system, that the company distributed more than 14,000 gas trailers to the governorates controlled by the Houthi militia.
He explained that about (14) thousand (739) gas trailers for the governorates under the control of the Houthis, equivalent to (32) million (444) thousand and (446) cylinders, or more than (55) percent of the total production, while the rest was distributed Quantities produced on all liberated governorates.
In his statement, the director of the gas company attacked the Houthis, and said that these figures refute their fabrications and belie their allegations that they did not supply their areas of control with gas, accusing the militia leadership of manipulating these quantities and exploiting them to achieve personal wealth by selling them on the black market affiliated with them at exorbitant prices.
The director of the gas company did not indicate the reasons for the crisis in the liberated areas, especially Taiz and the capital, Aden, which recently witnessed the almost complete disappearance of gas and sold it on the black market at a price exceeding 20 thousand riyals.
The statement of the director of the Marib Gas Company came in conjunction with accusations of the company’s leadership to reduce the quantities allocated to the liberated areas, including Aden, by 50%.
This is the first official statement about the annual production volume of domestic gas from the Safer fields in Marib, which raises the question about the volume of revenues and the controversy over supplying it to the Central Bank account or not.
The statement of the director of the gas company indicates that production last year amounted to about 60 million gas cylinders, with revenues exceeding 200 billion Yemeni riyals, according to the official price set by the company for a gas cylinder, which is 3550 riyals.
