Marib Governor Directs Increase in Fuel Quantity Allocated for Aden Electricity to Cover the Deficit

Yemen Monitor / Newsroom:

The member of the Yemeni Presidential Leadership Council, Major General Sultan Al-Arada, directed  Safer Company to increase the quantity of crude oil sent to the President’s Station in the interim capital, Aden, to contribute to covering the deficit in electrical energy.

Al-Arada’s media office said in a statement that “the member of the Presidential Leadership Council, Major General Sultan Al-Arada, directs Safer Company to increase the quantity of crude oil sent to the President’s Station in the interim capital, Aden, to 3,000 barrels, as a contribution to covering the deficit in electrical energy.”

The interim capital, Aden, witnessed angry demonstrations, with protesters raising slogans and chants denouncing the interruption of electricity service, the deterioration of living conditions, the collapse of the currency, and the cessation of drinking water in some neighborhoods due to fuel depletion.

Aden has a number of generating stations, some of which operate on diesel or mazut, and these have stopped operating for months due to the government stopping the fuel purchase budget. As for the President’s Station, which operates on crude oil, it has continued to operate, recently, on fuel granted to it by Safer Company in Marib, or by  Petromasila Company in Hadramout.

The last batches received by the station were from Petromasila Company in Hadramout in the past three weeks. Because the Hadramout Tribes Alliance controls the entrances and exits of crude oil tankers in Hadramout, it allowed the station to be supplied with crude oil for two weeks, and then added a third week that ended last Sunday, in order to pressure the Presidential Leadership Council to meet the alliance’s demands related to setting a timed executive mechanism for the plan, which was announced by the “Presidential” on January 7 to normalize the situation in Hadramout Governorate.

As for the solar power generation station, which generates about 120 megawatts, it depends on benefiting from it by operating one of the mechanical power plants that operate on crude oil, diesel or mazut.