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After deal with Kurds, Syria's new govt counts on crude oil and gas from the northeast

(30 Mar 2025) SYRIA Oil SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS RESTRICTION SUMMARY: LENGTH: 3:15 ASSOCIATED PRESS Rmeilan, Syria - 22 March 2025 1.⁠ ⁠Flame from burning gas at oil field 2.⁠ ⁠Various of oil extraction facility 3.⁠ ⁠Tanker filling crude boil from field 4.⁠ ⁠Man checking oil level inside tanker 5.⁠ ⁠SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Kamran Omar, production manager at Rmeilan oil field: "The deal made between the self-rule (Kurdish) administration and the Damascus administration, represented by Ahmad al-Sharaa, the de facto president of Syria, states that the self-rule administration supplies Syria with approximately 15,000 barrels (of crude oil) and one million cubic meters of gas for domestic use and essential needs." 6.⁠ ⁠Man walking next to pipes 7.⁠ ⁠Oil tanker leaving oil field 8.⁠ ⁠Long line of tankers queuing outside oil field 9.⁠ ⁠Various of oil tankers driving on road 10.⁠ ⁠SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Walid Sharbutli, driver of tanker from Hama, Syria: "Every day, we transport (oil) in about a hundred trucks or more. We load them in Rmeilan, pass through Qamishli, Hasakah, Raqqa and Tabqa, and then continue toward the Homs Refinery. Thank God, the road is safe. And hopefully, with this deal, people will benefit from the oil products to help develop the country’s economy." 11.⁠ ⁠Oil pumps 12.⁠ ⁠Various of flame of burning gas in oil field 13.⁠ ⁠SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Kamran Omar, production manager at Rmeilan oil field: "The (Kurdish) area has never denied the unity of Syria and (has emphasized) that the oil belongs to all Syrian people. Oil products, oil wealth and even agricultural wealth should be equally distributed among the people in all Syrian provinces." 14.⁠ Wide of oil field 15.⁠ ⁠Various of oil pumps operating in Rumilan oil fields 16.⁠ ⁠SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Kamran Omar, production manager at Rmeilan oil field: "Now, the self-rule administration is calling for joint management, joint production and the delivery of gas and oil to the Homs and Banias refineries to be refined there, and then redistributed among people in all provinces according to their population census." 17.⁠ ⁠People heading to work in oil field 18.⁠ ⁠Sheep, oil field in background 19.⁠ ⁠Oil tanker transferring oil from the area STORYLINE: Months after insurgents ended over half a century of the Assad dynasty’s rule in Syria, the country’s new Islamist interim government has been struggling to fix its battered infrastructure after a 14-year conflict decimated much of the country. Severe electricity shortages continue to plague the war-torn country. Damascus is now looking towards the country’s northeastern provinces, where its oil fields under Kurdish-led authorities -that signed a deal with the new Syrian government - are to boost its capacity. Analysts say that about 85% of the country’s oil production is based in those areas. Syria once exported crude oil in exchange for refined oil to boost local production, though the fields too are battered and bruised from years of conflict. These crucial oil fields fell into the hands of the extremist Islamic State group who carved out a so-called caliphate across large swaths of Syria and Iraq from 2014 to 2017. After IS fell, the U.S.-backed Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) took control of the fields, leaving them away from the central government in Damascus. A situation that the new authorities hope to revert through the deal signed with the SDF. He says shortages in equipment and supplies and clashes that persisted with Turkey and Turkish-backed forces have slowed down production. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...