The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Energy sources in regime’s areas are under the guillotine of the production companies and the protector companies

The companies that supervise the Syrian Desert’s fields are threatening to withdraw their members; regime’s government is under a debt burden of hundreds of millions of dollars

The “Islamic State” organization prepares for a massive attack to control power sources and divide Syria into two parts by reaching the Lebanese border

The military operations in the last days and weeks are centralized around one point, the Syrian Desert, Palmyra area and their oilfields, the apparent conflict part is the “Islamic State” organization which does not miss the opportunity to carry out offensives on the oil areas and gas fields to take control over them, and between the regime forces and their loyal gunmen of Syrian and Non-Syrian nationalities, supported by Russian advisors, who launched a military operation in recent days and expanded their control in the southern and southwestern desert of Palmyra, restoring thousands of square kilometers of it.

The attacks on the most prominent oil-areas in central Syria caused a crisis with energy resources as a result of the imbalance caused by these attacks, in terms of the interruption of resources that would help in the operation of running the facilities and producing and delivering the energy to the citizens in all the Syrian areas, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights obtained information from reliable sources about the hidden causes behind the energy crisis in Syria, of which the apparent thing was the fight between the organization against the regime forces and their allied forces.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights sought to reach the hidden and latent reasons behind this fight, and the struggle over oil and energy resources which the disrupted the Syrian movement, where the fuel and electricity have become the first wish and the first dream for many of the Syrian citizens, and the blackness has become covering most of the night on Syrian soil, and after the relentless pursuit by the Syrian Observatory, it was able to obtain information from reliable sources confirming to it that the energy crisis that continues to deepen at the heart of the daily events in Syria; is closely linked to a misunderstanding and disagreement between (the Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral resources of the Syrian government) and between ((Special Operations Company)), and the latter is directly responsible for repairing the infrastructure of the gas and oil fields -which was seized earlier by the “Islamic State” organization-, and providing protection for these fields in the north and west of Palmyra city in the eastern countryside of Homs.
This misunderstanding between both agreed-disagreed parties, was deepened as a result of what the reliable sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights, that the Syrian side is under the burden of large debts amounting to hundreds of millions of US dollars, which hampers the resolution of the dispute between the Ministry of Oil of the Syrian government and the company responsible for the repair and protection of the oil fields, whose one of its tasks is to provide gas for the final user, where the last mentioned seek a solution to this crisis. The most dangerous option was outweighed, which is withdrawing the security personnel and engineers from Syria, and withdrawing the company’s accreditation, this threatens the oil fields which are located in the north and west of Palmyra, south and north of the road between Homs and Palmyra , to completely fall under the control of the “Islamic State” organization.

The “Islamic State” organization prepares for a massive offensive to control the power sources and divide Syria into two parts by reaching the Lebanese border

The Syrian Observatory obtained more information which reported that the dangerousness of this option comes because of its coincide with the “Islamic State” organization’ brining of new military reinforcements in the past few weeks, which have been withdrawn from Iraqi territory and other Syrian areas, and hold their ground in the eastern desert of Palmyra city, and because these forces carried out attacks on the road between Palmyra and Deir Ezzor, between late May 2017 and the beginning of June 2017.

Brining these trained and reliable members in carrying out accurate and powerful attacks achieve their goals for sure, and the sources confirmed to the observatory that bringing them to the east of Palmyra was as a result of intention of the “Islamic State” organization to carry out a military attack, that gets its members to the T4 station in the western desert of Palmyra, near the T4 airbase “al-Tayyas Airbase” in the western desert of Palmyra on the road of Palmyra – Homs, coinciding with their plan to reach to all oil fields, wells and companies located in the area, also the Syrian Observatory learned that the “Islamic State” organization has moved towards the first target, which is finding and identifying the weak points under which the goal of the attack can be achieved directly, if the private company responsible for repairing the infrastructure and protecting the Syrian oil areas in central Syria withdraws it personnel.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and during its documenting for what it received of information, it obtained new information indicate the apprehension of the parties of the conflict within Syria-which place the energy resources at the top of their priorities-from carrying out this attack by the “Islamic State” organization if the private company withdraws its employees and engineers, and of controlling the oilfields such as the fields of Shaer, Jazl, Mohr, Jhar, Abu Rabah and other fields in the north and south of Palmyra – Homs road, which puts the organization in control of the gas market and thus opens the road for the organization to divide Syria into two main parts, northern and southern parts, separated by the road of control of the “Islamic State” organization, in case it advanced to the Lebanese territory by attacking specified areas in Homs.

This constant threat of the possibility of the “Islamic State” organization’s control, foreshadows a coming dark nightmare, and that is what the Syrian Observatory was able to obtain from sources who confirmed that the capacity of power production will be directly threatened and before any other thing, and that it is possible for the electrical feeding for most of the Syrian areas to reach 1 hour of electricity for each 6 hours of blackout.

Other options were presented at the discussion table between the Ministry of Oil and Mineral resources of the government of Bashar al-Assad’s regime and the private company responsible for the protection of the oil and gas fields in the Syrian Desert and repairing their infrastructure, and among these options which were obtained by the Syrian Observatory is supplying oil and gas to another parties of the conflict within Syria, the most prominent of which are the opposition factions guaranteed by international parties in Idlib and south of Syria, and to the areas control by the Syria Democratic Forces “the federal government of the Syrian north”, in addition to the option of producing electricity from the gas, and selling it in the foreign and regional markets.