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[00:00:00] Many warehouses, that is, the best
[00:00:02] by a group of warehouses we have in Homs, to some extent,
[00:00:03] his statements last year and his statements this some warehouses are holding up relatively well, acceptable, and we have some in Adra
[00:00:07] and the rest of the warehouses in the countryside of Aleppo, in Khan Touman,
[00:00:12] percentages and so on. Therefore, also in Khan al-Assal, in al-Ramousa, all of them are dilapidated and worn out, and the people of Aleppo know this
[00:00:16] on the need for energy. words. The warehouses in Idlib, which were in Kafr Batikh, are also
[00:00:19] completely destroyed,
[00:00:21] barrels per day of it's impossible to benefit from them. So many tanks and warehouses need to be rebuilt
[00:00:25] and rehabilitated. We started
[00:00:28] directly addressed by rehabilitating part of them, part of them, but the investment
[00:00:30] budgets, as we said, cannot cover everything for us. Today we have priorities in
[00:00:35] of oil, and the optimal solution is to increase the order of priorities. They tell us in the Ministry of Finance, stop revenues
[00:00:38] for the treasury for a year, then we will rebuild everything.
[00:00:41] But if the Ministry of Finance is asking us to raise
[00:00:45] salaries and wages, and we have investment projects, and you are a very
[00:00:48] large part of these stories as a petroleum company,
[00:00:53] direct inquiries from
[00:00:53] oil, they don't give us a day's respite in terms of financial transfers. As we mentioned, we used to give them 250 million
[00:00:58] we need a long time for dollars every month. After the oil became ours,
[00:01:01] 250 million dollars, all of this
[00:01:04] He also said that Syria's need contributed to the increase in salaries and wages. If they would leave them to us for a period, not a year, but four or five months,
[00:01:08] a billion dollars, we would create a reserve and stock and tanks and supply lines, it would be
[00:01:12] fine. But unfortunately, the state also has priorities, and spending is not
[00:01:15] my responsibility. I mean, we, in the end, I have a plan to submit. For example, some
[00:01:19] brothers mentioned some investment projects in water
[00:01:22] stations that the professor mentioned in Al-Rasafi and others. We are submitting these
[00:01:25] stations. For example, in the investment budget, we have submitted for every
[00:01:29] governorate five wastewater treatment plants for the wastewater that goes into
[00:01:32] rivers and the sea. The sewage in Latakia and Tartus goes into the sea,
[00:01:36] and in Deir ez-Zor into the Euphrates, and in Idlib into
[00:01:41] and complete the Orontes, and in Hama into the Orontes. So we initially submitted five stations. Here we need your support
[00:01:44] tomorrow in approving the budgets. Brother, let's make this a priority, this is
[00:01:47] and this does truly a priority. Tomorrow, if they don't approve the budget for five
[00:01:51] health treatment plants, we will postpone this
[00:01:54] problem until next year. So we have submitted, in every governorate,
[00:01:57] a minimum of five treatment plants. Wastewater
[00:02:00] also oil and gas protection lines and continuity
[00:02:04] of supply. We had 22 attacks on oil pipelines, and honestly, we
[00:02:08] to the need for more also ask you, God willing, tomorrow once the projects are submitted to you, and we
[00:02:11] have submitted projects, this is one of the questions that we will answer now.
[00:02:15] We have submitted a draft water
[00:02:17] God willing, we will bring this refinery and install it in legislation law, it is new at the General Secretariat, and we have included, honestly, deterrent
[00:02:21] as the esteemed MP mentioned, thank you for violations. If someone digs a well, the next day
[00:02:25] we confiscate the drilling rig, especially in Daraa, the situation is very
[00:02:28] difficult in terms of water. We are making a great effort to prevent
[00:02:32] violations
[00:02:34] there. We will build a refinery in Homs, in and encroachments and to secure drinking water. The encroachments on drinking
[00:02:37] water are often easy and simple because the violator pays a few pounds
[00:02:41] and gets away with it, right? Or the same thing for electricity. The electricity
[00:02:44] line from Deir Ali station to
[00:02:47] Adra to Adra cost
[00:02:50] us approximately 4 million Syrian pounds. In two days,
[00:02:54] just on the holiday, Thursday, they cut the electricity and stole it.
[00:02:58] to stop it came The Ministry of Interior later found and caught them and so on, but there are no deterrent penalties. We also need
[00:03:02] legislation that is punitive
[00:03:05] our suffering from a shortage in for the penalties. Someone who steals 4 million costs us and cuts electricity from
[00:03:07] a large part of the region and costs us
[00:03:10] to buy oil from on it, and maybe he sold it for 200-300 thousand. This aluminum he took, we told him if he had come
[00:03:13] to us, we would have given it to him, but don't destroy people's homes. Two or three
[00:03:16] months, it's a crime. He has a factory melting it, making ingots and so on.
[00:03:21] some ordinary people, as he said, cannot The Interior raided them, thank them, and arrested them, and then
[00:03:24] they are referred to the judiciary, fined, and so on. They return after
[00:03:26] petroleum products, as we mentioned, for a period, they come back to this. This needs contracts.
[00:03:30] pipeline, and participation with Legislation. We need legislation from the People's Assembly that is
[00:03:35] in the numbers and a contradiction deterrent and punitive for all these
[00:03:36] in the statements. He said that some violations on electricity, water, and oil. Environmental safety also,
[00:03:40] we have the treatment of war effects by stopping primitive burners, and this was a very
[00:03:44] big problem. We talked about the cancers that spread in
[00:03:47] the region. The region there was
[00:03:51] of involving private companies in a dark cloud from these burners. These burners are a primitive work that is not economically
[00:03:56] and will place it in
[00:03:56] Firstly, we have a stock market price. feasible. It does not produce gasoline, it only produces diesel with not good specifications. All these factors led
[00:03:59] to oil theft, because when there are burners, people go and steal oil and take it.
[00:04:03] "We import about But when the matter is only with Questions that do not shy away from the refineries, if someone steals crude oil, what will he do with it?
[00:04:04] compromise on He stops stealing.
[00:04:08] In addition to the work we did, we carried out a radiological survey and monitoring in cooperation
[00:04:13] figures that perhaps the street with the Atomic Energy Commission and removed mines around the main sites in cooperation with
[00:04:16] the concerned authorities. We signed many memoranda of understanding for
[00:04:20] gas and oil exploration in the sea. We signed with major
[00:04:23] companies. Some say that we might go towards tenders. It is
[00:04:27] one of the most important ways to contract, which is tenders, but
[00:04:31] you have some matters that we call the political direction
[00:04:34] of the state in concluding some contracts. I mean, today,
[00:04:39] 31 Syrian pounds per contracting with Chevron for example, the American company Chevron has its history,
[00:04:43] or the Italian company Eni, or ConocoPhillips. Some
[00:04:46] companies have their weight in the global
[00:04:48] yes, at oil and gas market.
[00:04:50] the latest prices in I mean, one of the Arab energy ministers told me, if
[00:04:53] Chevron and Conoco come to you, you will open the doors to all
[00:04:56] companies. I mean, frankly, he mentioned that there are major companies.
[00:05:00] Global leaders in
[00:05:03] has increased the pressure on oil and gas, it's an added
[00:05:05] three companies were established in value for them to enter the Syrian market, of course, provided that the contracts are fair
[00:05:08] between us and them, and not unfair. Yes,
[00:05:11] that's right. So far, we have made a memorandum
[00:05:15] of understanding, and it is in the process of converting the contract,
[00:05:19] and negotiations are at their peak with Conoco regarding
[00:05:24] currently, many companies were there. For example, in some matters,
[00:05:27] it is necessary, it pushes and forces the Ministry
[00:05:31] to go for direct contracting by mutual agreement,
[00:05:34] for example, such as petroleum products that we just
[00:05:38] talked about. If today I cannot find it in the market, then if a company
[00:05:42] says I have a petroleum product at a certain price lower than the global market, I can go
[00:05:45] towards direct contracting to secure this material. We do not leave people without
[00:05:49] diesel and gasoline for the sake of a tender that takes several days,
[00:05:53] or and the principle, the principle after stability and
[00:05:56] sustainability in the sector and the end of the crisis, we return to where we started
[00:06:00] from tenders. You might not know if anyone is aware, but when
[00:06:03] the Ministry was first established, all crude oil purchases were through tenders, but there was no crisis. Today
[00:06:07] the matter has changed. Companies are now submitting price offers,
[00:06:11] and this is one of the contracting methods that the contracts
[00:06:14] law has regulated for us. It allowed
[00:06:17] us to accept price offers and to procure price offers. It also allowed us to contract
[00:06:21] by mutual agreement in some exceptional matters, such as government companies
[00:06:24] and other exceptional circumstances. Okay,
[00:06:27] partnerships and investment in areas we mentioned that we have partnerships with
[00:06:31] ConocoPhillips, we have partnerships with Chevron, we also have with Total,
[00:06:35] the French Total, which is one of the giant and large companies in the energy sector,
[00:06:38] and we also have a partnership with Qatar
[00:06:41] Energy in terms of gas exploration. We have some
[00:06:44] partnerships with regional companies such as Edison, Kuwait Drilling Company,
[00:06:48] and UCS, which entered the power generation sector, as we will mention
[00:06:51] later. So, the new Syria's
[00:06:55] transition from a socialist economic system to a free market economic system,
[00:07:00] not mean that I chose this path.
[00:07:03] The state leadership, the presidency of the state, the Syrian
[00:07:07] government chose to transition from the socialist
[00:07:10] economic system to the market
[00:07:13] economy and the free economy. And this, I believe
[00:07:16] that most of those present agree that this
[00:07:19] is a necessary and very important step to build the new Syrian economy because
[00:07:23] it has proven its failure in many countries. And this stage, I say this
[00:07:27] stage that we are going through today, with some high prices and some
[00:07:31] lifting of subsidies on some services or reducing subsidies, not lifting, reducing subsidies on
[00:07:34] some services, this is a natural
[00:07:37] situation if we read a little about the history of countries that transitioned from this system to this
[00:07:41] system. If we went to Poland, Czech Republic, Georgia,
[00:07:44] Estonia, they went through this stage in 1992
[00:07:47] and 1993. They went through this stage, which is the transition from the corporate system.
[00:07:51] There was poverty, even though there was a decrease in the income rate, we increased
[00:07:55] the income rate by 550% increase
[00:07:59] in salaries, not to mention the qualitative increases that
[00:08:02] occurred for health, higher education, education, and
[00:08:05] inspection, justice, judiciary, and so on. These increases are real.
[00:08:09] We don't say we are behind them, no, we are an important part of them. Increases
[00:08:13] in wages and investment projects that are being implemented by the Syrian Petroleum Company
[00:08:16] are an important part of the state's revenues.
[00:08:19] 250 million as we said monthly is a resource
[00:08:23] for the treasury that contributed to these increases and these measures
[00:08:27] and the existing investment projects.
[00:08:29] Regarding the Price Fixing Committee, we were also asked about it. Mr. President,
[00:08:33] we are not only presenting, we are answering the questions
[00:08:36] in general that the honorable MPs might
[00:08:40] raise. There is a decision to form a committee to set
[00:08:44] prices. This decision includes representatives from all relevant parties. We have
[00:08:47] the Ministry of Economy, we have the Central Bank, we have the Ministry
[00:08:51] of Finance, we have Geology, we have the Energy Services Department, we have
[00:08:54] the Syrian Petroleum Company. This is for the purpose of setting a pricing
[00:08:58] policy, and they have submitted it to us, and we will hopefully provide you with it, the mechanism for pricing
[00:09:01] petroleum products, how the pricing equation works, which one
[00:09:05] of the honorable MPs asked about.
[00:09:08] This price is known. We have platforms for
[00:09:12] the prices of petroleum products and crude oil. Then there is the import premium,
[00:09:16] the price of the material, the customs duties,
[00:09:19] the profit margins, the transportation fees, the storage fees,
[00:09:23] the administrative expenses, the renewable energy fee, the car registration fee, all of these
[00:09:27] are fees on it. Then there are profit margins.
[00:09:30] Originally, there were profit margins, but now they are all loss margins, because today
[00:09:33] a liter of diesel at international prices is 1570 dollars. The last deal
[00:09:37] we bought for a liter of diesel was 206 Syrian pounds.
[00:09:40] The Ministry is selling it
[00:09:44] for 206, and the company is selling it for
[00:09:47] 175, as we set. So its loss is
[00:09:51] liter after this increase. 31 Syrian pounds, this diesel
[00:09:55] after the price increase, its cost is 26 Syrian pounds,
[00:10:02] the market after adjusting these prices without profits. Here, there is nothing
[00:10:06] called, I am saying its cost to us is 206.
[00:10:09] This is the stock market price of 1590.
[00:10:13] Of course, we bought the last one at 1570. Now it is 1590. Go back
[00:10:16] to the platforms. We can provide you with them, God willing, for the global market indicators.
[00:10:20] Fees and wages: 250. The final cost
[00:10:23] is 1840 tons. This
[00:10:25] is equivalent to 1200 liters. If we divide 1840 by
[00:10:28] 1200, we get 1.53
[00:10:32] dollars per liter. If we multiply it by the exchange rate
[00:10:35] of 135 today, it approximately comes out to 206 Syrian pounds,
[00:10:39] which is what we estimated at 175.
[00:10:43] The difference is 31, not 29. It is written as 29,
[00:10:46] but it is 31 Syrian pounds, the price difference
[00:10:50] between the imported diesel price
[00:10:53] and our pricing for it in the market. The strategic
[00:10:57] plan and priority of the stage is to increase Syria's production
[00:11:00] Syria's production, and we have a plan to increase production, God willing, we will provide
[00:11:04] you with it, God willing, we will provide the esteemed Council with the production plan.
[00:11:08] Of course, in general, we can say that if things go as
[00:11:11] we plan, and we don't have any emergencies, God willing, by
[00:11:15] 2028, we will achieve self-sufficiency in
[00:11:18] yes, by 2028. But for gas,
[00:11:23] gas. We might reach half of our needs by the
[00:11:27] end of 2030. But with
[00:11:30] the development of production in the sea, of course, the sea needs seven years. I mean, when
[00:11:34] we talk about gas exploration in the sea, tomorrow some will say,
[00:11:37] okay, we signed with Chevron, with Total, with Qatar Energy, with Eni,
[00:11:41] and so on. So where is the gas production? It needs seven
[00:11:44] years for gas to enter the energy sector. It's a very
[00:11:47] complicated issue. I mean, at the level of turbines, electricity is reserved in factories.
[00:11:51] We will talk about it with electricity. It's reserved in Siemens and Ansaldo factories. There are four
[00:11:55] companies, they are limited companies that manufacture turbines, and those who are familiar
[00:11:58] with the energy sector know Siemens, Ansaldo, GE,
[00:12:02] and Mitsubishi. These manufacture turbines. Turbine purchases are reserved
[00:12:05] until 2033, 2034, and 2035.
[00:12:08] No, thank God, through our partnership with UCS, we will get them ready by
[00:12:11] 2029. They will be coming because they have already purchased them from the companies.
[00:12:14] So we went for contracting with them to build stations and develop
[00:12:18] refineries. We were asked about the issue of refineries. God willing, yesterday,
[00:12:21] Friday, we had a team outside
[00:12:26] Syria that offered us a ready-made refinery for purchase, manufactured
[00:12:30] so it doesn't take us five years to manufacture.
[00:12:33] It might only need months for installation. A refinery
[00:12:35] with a capacity of about 30,000
[00:12:39] to 50,000, it can be developed.
[00:12:42] the eastern region in Deir ez-Zor,
[00:12:46] the remark, that we put a refinery in the same region instead of transporting oil
[00:12:50] here, then repeating and then transporting derivatives. No, in the same region, it provides jobs,
[00:12:53] it refines petroleum products and distributes them to the residents
[00:12:59] Al-Fardjlus, a refinery in Deir ez-Zor, and we are looking for a region
[00:13:02] in Aleppo because it needs an oil pipeline to reach it, it needs
[00:13:05] nearby water and so on. We are looking for a specific
[00:13:09] region. We might distribute four refineries, five refineries, each with a capacity
[00:13:13] of approximately 50,000 barrels, so that we cover the market
[00:13:16] needs along with the Banyas refinery we have. Also,
[00:13:20] expanding exploration. We have promising blocks for crude oil and gas. God willing,
[00:13:23] we will work on or have started working on
[00:13:27] exploring them. The companies, some companies and contracts are
[00:13:31] old. The companies declared force majeure during
[00:13:34] the revolution in 2012. Now,
[00:13:37] force majeure has been declared. Today, companies like Gulfsands have returned
[00:13:40] to the block they had. We contacted companies, some of them withdrew and some of them want
[00:13:44] to continue in the block they were in. Also, rehabilitating the transportation
[00:13:48] and storage system. Transporting
[00:13:51] heavy oil transport and the Kirkuk-Baniyas
[00:13:55] the private sector through the involvement of companies in
[00:13:58] the distribution process and the storage process. I mean, we
[00:14:02] discussed this a lot within the company and the Ministry. I mean, this
[00:14:05] might require, if some have studies or
[00:14:08] consultations, we welcome them. Honestly, it is a very sensitive
[00:14:12] step in this reality for the issue
[00:14:16] distribution specifically, whether in electricity or oil. However,
[00:14:20] God willing, we are studying it and will not proceed with the step until we reach
[00:14:23] a good final formula for the citizen and the company.
[00:14:27] Attracting new investments and new technology and transferring technology from
[00:14:30] major international companies. This
[00:14:33] is, for the oil and gas sector and petroleum products,
[00:14:37] we tried to clarify all the inquiries mentioned by the honorable
[00:14:41] MPs. God willing, we might have overlooked some points. We will take the questions again as mentioned
[00:14:44] by the President, so that we can answer them and then
[00:14:48] provide you with written answers, God willing. Thank you very much. Thank you, Mr.
[00:14:51] Minister. We will take a break until 2:30
[00:14:55] sharp, and Mr. Minister will continue with
[00:14:58] electricity and water. Of course, we gave the minister time. Some members, Mr.
[00:15:02] Minister, received 40 questions from the Energy Committee, so he needs
[00:15:06] time. The session was adjourned until
[00:15:09] 2:30.
[00:15:11] So,
[00:15:20] if we continued the hearing session for the Minister of Energy,
[00:15:23] Mohammed Al-Bashir, in the People's Assembly.
[00:15:25] The most prominent statements by the Minister of Energy were that
[00:15:30] the Ministry, including the Syrian Petroleum Company, which is state-owned.
[00:15:34] He also said, we have reinstated more than 10,000
[00:15:37] dismissed employees to work out of 12,000
[00:15:41] applications. He also said, we have 78 oil fields
[00:15:45] and 28 gas fields.
[00:15:49] He also mentioned that the strategic reserve of crude oil
[00:15:52] amounts to two and a half billion barrels,
[00:15:56] and we need 300,000
[00:15:59] crude oil to cover Syria's
[00:16:02] needs. He also added that we performed maintenance
[00:16:05] on the Banyas refinery due to its need for maintenance
[00:16:08] and to preserve the safety of its workers.
[00:16:11] He also said that our current oil
[00:16:14] production is about 11,000 barrels
[00:16:18] per day, and production reached in a short period
[00:16:21] about 14,000
[00:16:24] barrels per day. The refining capacity of refineries in
[00:16:28] Syria reaches about 150,000
[00:16:31] barrels. The Minister of Energy also added that oil
[00:16:35] production is subject to fluctuations due to the reality of the wells and production
[00:16:38] and transportation.
[00:16:42] for gas is 24 million
[00:16:45] cubic meters, of which we produce about 8 million
[00:16:49] and buy about 6.3
[00:16:52] billion cubic meters of gas
[00:16:55] daily from Azerbaijan via Jordan, and we need
[00:16:59] 12 million liters of diesel per day
[00:17:02] and 8 million liters of gasoline.
[00:17:05] He also added, we need
[00:17:08] 831 million dollars monthly to buy
[00:17:12] petroleum products and crude oil, and we are moving towards
[00:17:16] contracting with friendly countries that produce fuel
[00:17:19] until we achieve self-sufficiency. These
[00:17:23] are the most prominent urgent news
[00:17:26] that came from the Minister of Energy in the hearing session before
[00:17:30] the People's Assembly. The Minister of Energy also
[00:17:33] spoke about the increase in the number of cars in
[00:17:36] Syria from two and a half million to
[00:17:39] 3.6
[00:17:42] million, which led
[00:17:45] fuel. He also talked about a gap of about 200,000
[00:17:49] barrels of crude oil, and
[00:17:52] that the Banyas refinery is not designed or qualified
[00:17:55] to refine heavy oil. He added,
[00:17:59] we now buy gas completely after the grant
[00:18:02] from Qatar ended. He also added that
[00:18:06] the Minister of Energy said they have options:
[00:18:09] either we live in a fuel crisis and stop buying gas,
[00:18:13] and consequently, electricity will be cut off for most
[00:18:16] of the day. The Minister of Energy, Mohammed Al-Bashir, also added
[00:18:20] that the Homs refinery is currently
[00:18:23] an energy security for Syria. He also said
[00:18:26] that technicians described the Banyas refinery
[00:18:29] as a ticking time bomb,
[00:18:33] and the decision out of concern for
[00:18:38] safety. The Minister of Energy, Mohammed Al-Bashir, also spoke about
[00:18:42] foreign currencies, specifically in dollars,
[00:18:47] abroad. He also spoke about the Kirkuk-Baniyas
[00:18:50] pipeline, which is a dilapidated line in need of complete
[00:18:54] replacement. The first step
[00:18:57] begins from the Iraqi side, according to the Minister of Energy. He also
[00:19:01] spoke about the heavy oil transport line, the heavy
[00:19:04] oil pipeline, and said that they have removed the encroachment
[00:19:08] from it, and it will be in service soon. Work is currently underway
[00:19:11] to rehabilitate it. He also spoke about
[00:19:14] the demands of the Ministry of Finance to the Ministry of Oil
[00:19:18] for financial transfers to the Ministry in
[00:19:22] order to pay salaries and other financial
[00:19:25] details. He also recently spoke about them working
[00:19:28] on purchasing a ready-made oil refinery
[00:19:33] the eastern region. These are the most prominent
[00:19:38] urgent news that the Minister of Energy, Mohammed Al-Bashir, spoke about in
[00:19:42] the hearing session before the People's Assembly, which
[00:19:45] is still ongoing or
[00:19:48] will resume again after about half an hour,
[00:19:52] according to what the Speaker of the People's Assembly said. Joining
[00:19:55] us for more details is Syria TV correspondent from Damascus, Hazem Awad. Welcome,
[00:19:59] Hazem. Please summarize for us the most important points
[00:20:03] from this session. Also joining us is Abada Mansour
[00:20:06] from inside the People's Assembly. So
[00:20:10] we have Hazem Awad from outside the People's Assembly
[00:20:13] and Abada Mansour from inside the People's
[00:20:16] Assembly. Abada Mansour, welcome. Please summarize for us the most important points
[00:20:20] from this session and the reactions to
[00:20:24] the Minister of Energy's statements.
[00:20:27] In fact, the honorable
[00:20:33] MPs have now left for a break, with the session
[00:20:37] adjourned until 2:30. So there is
[00:20:39] about half an hour break. The session
[00:20:43] lasted for about two hours. And actually, this
[00:20:46] session was forty questions addressed
[00:20:52] Syrian MPs in the People's Assembly. These questions were addressed directly
[00:20:55] to the Minister of Energy, who attended this session today, which
[00:20:59] was postponed from last Thursday, September
[00:21:03] 7th, to today, September
[00:21:06] 20th, to allow the Ministry of Energy to take its time
[00:21:10] and for the Minister of Energy to answer these questions today.
[00:21:13] Of course, the Minister of Energy today , in fact, after these questions were
[00:21:18] the MPs, he was actually asked a wide
[00:21:21] range of questions that started with
[00:21:25] inquiries about the energy situation completely in Syria, inquiries about
[00:21:28] the electricity and water situation, in addition to inquiries about
[00:21:32] the recent increase that fuel prices reached
[00:21:36] recently in Syria, the recent increase that was actually
[00:21:39] about 40%. There were also
[00:21:43] the honorable MPs about
[00:21:45] the next stage, how the Syrian
[00:21:50] Ministry of Energy will deal directly
[00:21:54] with this crisis it is experiencing, from raising
[00:21:57] fuel prices, and also from providing fuel or providing
[00:22:01] diesel in three
[00:22:03] categories. There were also specific questions about electricity
[00:22:06] and water and other matters related to the Ministry
[00:22:10] of Energy. Of course, Waseem, the Minister of Energy, Mohammed Bashir, in fact, fully
[00:22:14] addressed these questions. He answered a large
[00:22:18] number of these questions directly through the briefing he provided
[00:22:21] initially, regarding the amount
[00:22:25] of oil that Syria produces daily. He spoke
[00:22:29] about approximately 110 barrels, or
[00:22:31] 10,000 barrels, are produced, with
[00:22:35] fluctuations depending on the state of these wells. He also
[00:22:39] spoke about the amount of gas, which is estimated at
[00:22:42] 800,000 cubic meters, while Syria's need
[00:22:45] is approximately 24,000
[00:22:48] meters per day, and the rest is imported from
[00:22:52] some countries. Of course, he also spoke about
[00:22:55] the situation of the wells in northeastern
[00:22:59] Syria. There are a large number of wells that have been, I mean, they are out of order.
[00:23:02] Some wells have not yet been,
[00:23:05] repaired.
[00:23:14] area
[00:23:14] of extraction.
[00:23:19] Yes, yes, Abada, it seems we are facing a problem with the Syria TV correspondent from
[00:23:23] inside the People's Assembly, Abada Mansour.
[00:23:26] I will move outside the People's Assembly with Hazem Awad.
[00:23:29] Hazem, how did you record people's opinions
[00:23:32] about this session? Of course, an initial survey because the session has not
[00:23:36] ended yet.
[00:23:38] Actually, here in the street,
[00:23:42] next to the People's Assembly, some people we stopped
[00:23:45] during this period while waiting outside
[00:23:48] the Council, some of them don't know what is happening inside
[00:23:52] or under the dome of Parliament. There were
[00:23:56] some followers who asked
[00:23:59] us what was happening inside and whether the minister had presented anything useful.
[00:24:03] Frankly, the minister provided general clarifications.
[00:24:06] Perhaps he even said, during the clarifications, that
[00:24:11] understand some details provided by the Ministry, and this
[00:24:15] is an important point the minister included in his refutation
[00:24:18] of the accusations made against the Ministry
[00:24:22] that there was a contradiction
[00:24:26] people, for example, do not know precisely what kind of
[00:24:30] gas we produce and what kind of household gas there is, and they cannot
[00:24:34] differentiate between produced gas, natural
[00:24:37] gas for energy production, and
[00:24:39] household gas that comes to their homes.
[00:24:43] And here he began to refute some of the accusations, as we said,
[00:24:46] that were directed at the Ministry of Energy regarding
[00:24:50] contradictory statements. He said,
[00:24:53] 6.3 million cubic meters of gas daily,
[00:24:57] equivalent to 150 million dollars per month."
[00:25:00] He spoke in
[00:25:03] does not understand, and it is not a matter
[00:25:07] of understanding; it does not understand them in the sense that these are not the justifications
[00:25:10] it expects in this way. He also provided
[00:25:13] other figures regarding the contradictions that were said
[00:25:17] in previous statements by the minister himself,
[00:25:20] that Syria exports oil, Syria
[00:25:23] has become self-sufficient in oil production and does not import at all. He said
[00:25:26] that the figures that were presented last year regarding
[00:25:30] oil production were sufficient at the time, but
[00:25:33] when northeastern Syria was liberated
[00:25:36] and annexed to Syrian geography, the need became greater because those areas that
[00:25:40] relied on burners or relied on wells under
[00:25:43] SDF control perhaps used to buy
[00:25:46] oil from those entities. Today, they are demanding that the Ministry
[00:25:50] secure this oil, and this
[00:25:53] the need that was declared to be
[00:25:56] 15,000 barrels per day. Of course, he also spoke
[00:26:00] about several factors that contributed to the increased need between
[00:26:06] year regarding the increased need for energy due to
[00:26:09] progress in industries, for example,
[00:26:13] and he spoke about other matters that perhaps contributed to increasing the pressure
[00:26:18] What meaning the difference between something
[00:26:22] last year and something this year. He also said that
[00:26:25] perhaps some statements differ from time to time regarding the quantity of oil
[00:26:29] barrels produced, and this depends on the daily variation, perhaps, that these
[00:26:33] wells sometimes produce 15,000 barrels and sometimes produce
[00:26:36] 112,000 barrels, and sometimes 10,000 barrels.
[00:26:40] Therefore, it is not possible to set a clear number
[00:26:43] because the wells perhaps
[00:26:46] do not produce consistently. He said that the wells
[00:26:49] that the Ministry of Oil received from northeastern Syria
[00:26:52] are in a difficult situation. He also said that the primitive refineries that
[00:26:56] some areas in northeastern Syria relied on have gone out of service, and therefore
[00:27:00] the pressure has also increased. We return to the
[00:27:10] members of the People's Assembly on the words
[00:27:12] of the minister.
[00:27:17] This is what he will
[00:27:21] take as a break, in fact.
[00:27:24] There are several discussions actually taking place at this moment.
[00:27:27] I hear some of them, which are that the minister has not yet answered
[00:27:31] all the questions. The members of parliament are actually waiting
[00:27:35] for the other part or the second part of this session, which will resume
[00:27:38] after about half an hour from now. They will listen
[00:27:43] with the Syrian Minister of Energy the remaining
[00:27:47] questions for which they need answers.
[00:27:50] Also, some members of parliament say that this session
[00:27:54] today has received a set of information that was
[00:27:57] absent from them in some
[00:28:01] items, and also some were,
[00:28:04] they knew them, but the minister did not provide them
[00:28:07] with much information about them. Of course,
[00:28:10] we will actually wait for the second part of this session to hear what
[00:28:13] remains with the Syrian Minister of Energy from the hearing and briefing session that
[00:28:17] he will present. There are also some sections in which he will present
[00:28:21] information, whether about electricity or water or other
[00:28:24] sections
[00:28:26] of the Ministry of Energy. Yes, thank you, Obada Mansour, Syria TV correspondent. You were with us
[00:28:30] from inside the People's Assembly. And many thanks also
[00:28:32] to Hazem Awad, who was with us from in front of the People's Assembly. Thank you
[00:28:36] very much for these clarifications.
[00:28:40] Viewers, we will be with you with the latest developments of this
[00:28:43] session to listen to
[00:28:47] the Minister of Energy in front of the People's Assembly shortly, when
[00:28:50] it resumes with colleague Amina Akkari, by God's
[00:28:54] grace.
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