Enviormental Disaster? No, Hot Air Mostly
The numbers are all wrong, and the scenario espoused doesn’t fit the physical reality. There was an IED, not a pipe failure, and the amount spilled could never amount the the numbers presented in Parliament. If there’s 420,000 barrels of oil missing, its probably on a tanker, not in the ground.
Sahwa Net – A Yemeni parliamentarian, Abdul-Karim Jadban, accused on Tuesday the French company, Total, of wasting 420,000 barrels of oil worth 11 billion and 700 thousand Yemeni rials, affirming in the meantime, that the firm manipulated international standards of oil pipelines which, in part, led to leak amounts of oil in March 2008 and spoil environment.
On the other hand, Jadban further revealed that the UK firm Dove Energy had embezzled 11 billion and 423 million Yemeni rials, asking the Oil and Minerals Minister about the realities of referring the firm to a public fund court.
How do we go from 1000 barrels leaked to 420,000 barrels wasted, ’splain please.
Member of the Parliament Abdul-Karim Jadban asked at the Parliament’s session on Tuesday the Minister of Oil and Minerals about 420,000 barrels of oil that he claimed wasted by the French TOTAL last March.
Jadban accused TOTAL of “playing with international specifications of oil pipelines that led to the explosion of a pipeline that has been linking block 10 to block 14 last March 14, 2008.”
Jadban said the explosion cost Yemen YR 11.7 billion and that the production stopped from March 27 to April 5, 2008. He added that a quantity of oil estimated at 1000 barrels leaked out and that “may destroy the environment.”
