A source at the Safer Oil Company in Marib said on Wednesday that the company had resumed pumping crude oil to power stations in Aden, after repairing the pipeline that was exposed to two explosions in Shabwa Governorate over the past few days.

The oil pipeline extending from Safer in Marib to the Jannah sector in Asilan in Shabwa was bombed by “saboteurs” on the 26th of last December, while the pipeline extending from the Jannah sector 5 in Asilan to the Ayad area was subjected to another bombing by gunmen last Monday. In protest against what they said was the refusal to pay their dues in exchange for protecting the pipeline.

The two explosions caused the cessation of the pumping of crude oil allocated to the President's PetroMasila station, which is the most important electrical station in the temporary capital of Aden, in the south of the country.

The source in Safer Company said that the engineering teams were able to repair the pipeline, and Safer Company resumed the process of pumping oil through the pipeline to Sector 5 and from there to the Ayad fields and the port of Nashmiyah on the coast of the Arabian Sea, from which it is transported on trailers to Aden.< /p>

This comes in conjunction with reports of a severe fuel shortage suffered by power stations in Aden and its environs, against the backdrop of the protests that Marib witnessed against the decision to raise the price of oil in the governorate, and the seizure of trailers loaded with crude oil by gunmen in the “Khobar Al-Maraqsha” area in Abyan. From the port of Nashmiya early this week.

Aden frequently witnesses an electrical power crisis, due to the running out of fuel allocated to operate the stations. Last November, the government announced the provision of sufficient quantities until the beginning of this January, but those quantities ran out before the end of the year.