Libya said Sunday that production from two oil fields south of the country has resumed after the release of a former finance minister, reports Anadolu Agency. Production at El-Sharara and El-Feel oil fields was shut on Thursday following the detention of former Finance Minister Faraj Boumtari. Local tribesmen have demanded Boumtari’s release to allow production […]
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Ten rockets hit near oilfield, US base in eastern Syria
Ten rockets were fired from Syria’s eastern Mayadin region on Wednesday, apparently targeting the Al-Omar oilfield in the Deir ez-Zor province of eastern Syria, where US forces are also stationed, Anadolu News Agency reports. However, these rockets landed in barren areas surrounding the oilfield, causing no injuries or damage, according to local sources who requested […]
Iran starts early production of south Yaran oilfield
SHANA– Iran has started producing 10,000 barrels per day of crude oil from South Yarn oilfield which it shares with Iraq. According to the Petroleum Engineering and Development Company (PEDEC), the company’s managing director Nooreddin Shahnazizadeh said 6 wells of the field have become productive, yielding 10,000 b/d of crude in the early production phase […]
Installation of Forouzan oilfield LQP by late september
Shana–Iran started loading of a living quarter platform’s jacket destined for Forouzan offshore oilfield in Persian Gulf. Installation of the platform is scheduled to be complete by late September. Loading of the 1,025-ton LQP jacket began at the yard of Naft Sazeh Qeshm Company in Qesham Island on Wednesday. The jacket’s topside will also be […]
Omani company buys majority stake in Iranian antimony mine
Muscat – Ubar Mining International LLC, a newly established Omani company, has acquired a 70 per cent stake in an Iranian antimony mine. The Sirzar mine is located about 125km south west of the Iranian city of Mashhad. It is owned by Mashhad-based Part Gowal Gity Co, which specialises in mining and trading of metal and […]
Russia’s Syrian Puzzle: How the West misread Putin
Senior western officials were unable to recognize Russia’s objectives in Syria, and when the West woke up to the Russian President’s intentions, it was short of ideas how to respond and as a result had to “swallow some pride” and accept Russia’s terms, says Reuters. Russia’s air operation in Syria came as a big surprise […]
Demolition team dismantle Chinese hospital with patients & doctors inside
Up to 30 people in camouflage uniform began demolishing part of the Fourth Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University with a bulldozer on Thursday morning, according to the Shanghai Daily. The forced demolition is being linked to a land dispute with the local Huiji District government, after the hospital declined to relocate its radiology department and […]
Who is ex-wife of Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi exchanged for captives on Lebanese border?
Alwaght- Saja al-Dulaimi was grown up in a family with radical ideas, her father was an advocate of Baath party. Her father, Hamid al-Dulaimi, was a senior commander of Saddam’s Baath Party. After the US invasion to Iraq in 2003, he managed to evade the punishments of the Iraqi popular committees and lived in al-Anbar. […]
UK’s Approach To Spotting Terrorism: You Might Be A Terrorist If…
Michaela Whitton (AM) : The creeping use of counter-terrorism policies in Britain to clamp down on civil liberties appears to be relying on a number of flawed assumptions. Not content with the stigmatizing of Muslim communities, the U.K.’s spot the terrorist approach also has the potential to criminalise political activists and campaigners by labelling them […]