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said that the MoU would allow the two guarantors in war-torn Syria. Russia regularly UAE Sheikh lays claim to oil
organisations to exchange expertise as the conducts humanitarian operations across the
regional oil and gas industry experiences country and helps Damascus provide safe US says is from Iran
rapid technological development. passage for the return of Syrian refugees.
Digital transformation and sustainability URDUPOINT The US policy of stopping Iran from exporting
are high on the agenda of every oil and gas oil suffered a setback after a United Arab
executive in the region, and the move follows Wells secured at Nowruz Emirates sheikh laid claim to a cargo that
years of progress across the Gulf region. Washington seized and alleged is from the
OGME offshore field Islamic Republic.
A company controlled by the Emirate
The final safety operation of the erupted wells of Fujairah’s ruler told a US court that the
OIL No. 5, 6, 7 and 8 in Nowruz offshore field was roughly 2 million barrels of crude was
successfully performed by the diving teams of originally from Iraq. Fujairah International
Syrian oil facilities in Khark Underwater Repairs. Oil & Gas Corp., wholly owned by Sheikh
According to the Iranian Offshore Oil
Hamad bin Mohammed Al Sharqi, said it’s an
Aleppo come under fire Company, the wells that caught fire due to the intermediary seller of the oil, according to a
claim filed in a federal court in the District of
enemy’s air attack during the imposed war
Oil facilities came under a rocket attack in of Iraq on Iran and had erupted in the same Columbia.
the north of Syria’s Aleppo Governorate, in years of 1982 and 1983, were controlled by The case underscores the difficulty the US
an area controlled by pro-Turkish groups, the an offshore divers group who carried out an faces as it tries to bar Iran from generating
Syrian Al Watan newspaper reports. initiative under water. income from energy sales and pressure it into
The attack occurred late on Sunday night, However, with 99 days of continuous re-starting nuclear talks.
in the al-Hamran village, where oil tanker and round-the-clock operation, cooperation While shipments of Iranian oil have
trucks and facilities for the initial processing of DCI-2 drilling rig specialists, and about slumped due to threat of US penalties, they
of oil belonging to Turkey-backed forces 24,750 minutes of diving operations, the wells have picked in recent months, though their
are located, the newspaper said citing local became ready to be operated from the seabed. origin is often disguised. The main buyers are
sources. Due to the complete destruction of refiners in China.
The resulting fire and explosions led to the the platform section of the wells during Washington alleges that Iran’s Islamic
injury of several members of the pro-Turkish the war and the erosion of a large part Revolutionary Guard Corps and the IRGC-
armed groups and workers of the makeshift of the underwater structure over the last Quds Force -- both classified as terrorist
oil facilities. 35 years, two of the four wells on the 5th organizations by the US -- covertly shipped
According to Al Watan, one week ago, a Nowruz platform were tilted and fell on the the oil abroad, relying on ship-to-ship
similar attack in the same area left no less than underwater scissors, which were verticalized transfers and falsified documents. Iran said
200 tanker trucks with Syrian oil burnt down. with the efforts and measures taken by the the cargo belonged to the “private sector” and
The newspaper said the stolen oil is underwater repair experts and the installation that its seizure was an “act of piracy.”
processed and then sold by Turkey-backed of various underwater retainers and restraints, “I’m sure that Iranian oil is continuing to
groups in Syria. but due to the winter and severe storms, this flow,” said Iman Nasseri, managing director
According to the Anadolu news agency, the operation was repeated several times. for the Middle East at consulting firm FGE.
Turkish Defense Ministry said that the Sunday To help the drilling team to secure the “Forging documents like bills of lading and
rocket attack was launched from the Syrian abandoned 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th wells others needed for trades is not that big a
Kuweires airbase in the Aleppo Governorate. of Nowruz Field, more than 30 drilling problem.”
The rockets hit the cities of Jarabulus and operations were carried out for sampling and US President Joe Biden has proposed that
Al-Bab, which are under Turkish control. The injection of cement. Thus, concerns about the two nations return to a 2015 international
Turkish Defense Ministry informed Russia re-eruption of these wells were resolved after agreement under which Iran limited its
of the necessity to prevent such attacks in the years. nuclear activities in exchange for sanctions
future, Anadolu said. SHANA relief. His predecessor, Donald Trump, pulled
Russia, Turkey, and Iran are the ceasefire the US out of the accord in mid-2018 and

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