Oil of east Euphrates scatters between selling to the regime through merchants, buying it by workers who refine it primitively, and investing the wells by millions of Liras a day

Amid the hustle and bustle of death and the accumulation of tragedy day after day, the oil continues to be poured just like the Syrian blood, but the colors were different, and despite their differences the people of this country have not eaten form its goods, and they become homeless, humiliated, wandering in their country, displaced, refugees, and rejected by their shelters, they have become workers in their land but left only with some crumbs to fill some of their children’s hunger. And as the regime forces and the Russians are taking control with their security and economic companies over the oil of the west of Euphrates and the Syrian Desert and securing them fearing the return of ISIS, the east of Euphrates which is controlled by the Syria Democratic Forces is witnessing the pumping, selling, and trading of oil, and regarding that, the Syrian Observatory conducted a research into the nature of the work and the action in dealing with oil.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned from several reliable sources that the fields of al-Omar and al-Tank, are pumping on a daily basis a total of 20000 barrels from 5 wells named after families and people used to control these wells after the regime lost the control of the area, and they are the wells of: “Abu Loqman, Abu Shawarib, Abu Naylunah, al-Bashar, Abu Jamrah”, the sources confirmed that filling the barrels or tankers is carried out by pumping oil to tankers some of which can fill 100 barrels and called “al-Hout” (the whale), while other tankers can fill more than 200 barrels called “al-Dudah” (the worm). The value of the barrel is about 7000 SYP, and the reliable sources confirmed that part of the sale is done with owners of the oil refiners, who refine the oil in areas east of Euphrates and in areas controlled by Syria Democratic Forces, while the other part is sold to regime forces’-controlled areas and regime’s refineries, where tankers of Syrian businessmen who work by the name of “al-Qaterji”, transports hundreds of thousands of barrels per day to the oil refineries in regime forces’-controlled areas, also there are investments made by civilians, especially the elders of Deir Ezzor province and east of Euphrates, where the investment process works for 24 hours in exchange for a fixed amount of about 3 million Syrian pounds or more, depending on the well and its activity.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also learned from reliable sources that the pumping operation in the wells of al-Tank and al-Omar is automated, without the need for tools and equipment as happens in other fields such as al-Meleh Field and al-Azraq Field which contains 14 wells, plus al-Benzeen Field which is known for its excellent oil quality, while the Syrian Observatory monitored the ignite of a flame in al-Tank oilfield and the gas field of al-Omar field, while the system of measuring the weight of the tanker on the weights was adopted, fearing the fraud in the filling process or in the number of barrels, where they weight the tanker while it is empty and then they weigh it again after filling it to confirm the accuracy of the quantity, also the same sources confirmed that the Syria Democratic Forces are tighten their guard on the fields and oil wells, and impose a fine of up to 2000 USD on oil thieves, where the fine depends on the amount of the stolen oil.