Infrastructure losses in NE, Syria as a result of Turkish attacks exceeded one billion dollars

Turkish attacks on NE, Syria continue without stopping, targeting residential areas and villages on a daily basis.

On October 4, the Turkish occupation escalated its attacks, directly targeting infrastructure, including energy and water facilities and electricity generation plants.

Its drones and warplanes simultaneously targeted sites in the cantons of al-Hasakah, Qamishlo, and the Euphrates region, and also bombed the Anti-Narcotics Academy of the Internal Security Forces in the Derik countryside.

These attacks, in addition to major damage to infrastructure and deprivation of citizens from electricity and water, caused the death of 47 citizens and the injury of more than 59 others from October 4 to 11, including fighters from the Syrian Democratic Forces and the Internal Security Forces.

According to the director of the oil fields in Rmelan, Ahmed Ibrahim, the damage caused by the Turkish occupation attacks is very large and has greatly affected the services provided to citizens, and its losses exceeded more than one billion US dollars.

In this report prepared by ANHA's agency, we review in numbers and details the damage caused to oil, gas and electricity stations in Jazira region.

The Directorate, in counting the damages and the sites that were targeted, prepared detailed reports about them, and divided the sites into 10 groups related to the establishments to which the losses were inflicted.

The first group: It concerns the damage caused to the Odeh gas field on the northern side of the Tirbespiyê district. The Turkish occupation aircraft targeted 9 sites, causing material losses and leaking oil and gas, and the value of the losses inflicted was estimated at 35 million, 351, and 228 US dollars.

The second group: stations affiliated with the Suwaydiya 2 facility, which are the main stations for collecting and targeting oil, and all the devices and equipment therein were burned.

- Babasi station, located in the north-east of Tirbespiyê district, was targeted by warplanes and completely destroyed.

Zorava station (Zarba) in the northern countryside of Tirbespiyê district, damaging the equipment there and destroying a drilling mechanism that was there.

Alyan station (Sikirka) is located in the northern countryside of Cel Agah district and was bombed by a warplane, causing major damage to it.

Saeeda Oil Terminal: North of Tirbespiyê the main assembly tanks were damaged, extension tubes were also burned.

The value of the oil that leaked and caught fire in the stations as a result of the Turkish bombing was estimated at 44 million 945 thousand and 824 US dollars, while the value of the general loss in the stations in terms of equipment and oil amounted to 96 million 565 thousand and 768 dollars.

The third group: The damage caused to the civil equipment in the stations, including iron and cement supports, and the value of the losses was estimated at 7 million and 594 thousand US dollars. On civil constructions of iron and cement, estimated at 7 million and 425 thousand US dollars.

The fourth group: This is the one in which the losses of safety equipment used in dealing with and extinguishing the fires that broke out at the sites were counted, including telephones, fire engines, and other safety equipment, and their value amounted to 4 million and 594 thousand US dollars.

The fifth group: a statistic of damages to the quantities of oil that stopped working and extraction, estimated at 9 million 535 thousand and 37 barrels, with losses costing 939 million 109 thousand and 656 US dollars.

The sixth group: which is the associated and free gas group. The amount of gas that stopped production and leaked is estimated at 120 million square meters, with a value of 66 million and 484 thousand US dollars.

Seventh group: turbines and wind turbines for electric power generation plants, divided into two parts:

The first: power generation turbines in Suwaydiya, where the occupation army’s aircraft completely destroyed turbine 2. The resulting losses were estimated at 27 million US dollars, and this led to difficulty in generating electrical power.

The value of the total losses to the remaining turbines in the facility was estimated at 23 million 847 thousand and 120 US dollars.

Section Two: Damage to the electrical power generation stations of the Rmelan, field, where the connection cables, transformers, and connections were completely destroyed and fires caught in it, and the value of the losses reached 3 million US dollars.

In the general statistics of the value of losses related to production electricity from the main oil and gas stations, its value reached 53 million 910 thousand and 820 thousand US dollars.

The eighth group: which is related to the Suwaydiya gas operation, where the equipment was completely damaged and was out of service for several days, which led to the cessation of production. The value of the equipment that was out of service was estimated at one million and 847 thousand US dollars.

The amount of domestic gas produced in the plant daily is estimated at 160 tons, while the station being out of operation caused a waste of 4,800 tons, at a cost amounting to 58 million 12 thousand and 800 US dollars.

While the amount of clean gas produced daily is estimated at 500 thousand square meters, the value of losses in this facility amounted to 8 million and 310 thousand US dollars.

As for solvents, the daily production of which is estimated at 40 tons, the Turkish bombing caused losses amounting to 1,200 tons, with a lost cost estimated at one million and 800 thousand dollars.

In addition to the losses in gas and solvents, the main electricity transformers and feeding cables were damaged, as transformers No. 1, 2, 3, and 4, and the main agitation rooms were damaged, and the value of the financial losses reached 37 million and 615 thousand US dollars.

The tenth and final group concerns the transfer stations in the areas of Amuda, Tirbespiyê, the city of Qamishlo, and the Western Dam station in Hasakah.

The Turkish occupation aircraft directly targeted the stations, causing them to be completely out of service and depriving the people of electricity.

According to statistics, the value of losses in the transformers that targeted the Qamishlo station amounted to two million and 15 thousand US dollars, and in the Amuda station it amounted to 1,600,432 thousand US dollars, and in the Tirbespiyê transformer station, the losses reached 1 million and 842 thousand dollars, while the value of the losses as a result of targeting the station reached The Western Dam in the city of Hasakah reached 843 thousand and 23 US dollars.

More than a billion dollars in total losses

The total loss and damage caused by the Turkish attacks on the infrastructure in NE, Syria amounted to one billion 270 million 201 thousand and 782 US dollars.

According to the director of the oil fields in Rmelan, they were able, within a short period, and from the equipment that was present in their warehouses for emergency cases, to maintain and return many of the sites that were targeted to work and service, while many sites remained in the work stage for restoration, and the process requires a period of time. It may take several months.

He stressed that the Turkish attacks caused citizens to be deprived of electricity, mentioning that they were supplying 101 villages in Qamishlo canton, which have oil stations or near them, with continuous electricity, but the attacks caused them to be deprived of this, and the villages’ supply system was transformed into rationing.

He called on citizens to realize the reality of the aftermath of the recent Turkish attacks, and to cooperate to reduce their effects to the maximum extent.

Ahmed Ibrahim also pointed out the duplicity of international forces and organizations concerned with human rights in dealing with the issue of the people of NE, Syria, destroying infrastructure and targeting citizens, which amounts to war crimes.

This is not the first time that the Turkish occupation state has targeted the infrastructure in northern and eastern Syria. During the period between 20 and 23 November 2022, oil, gas and electricity stations were subjected to systematic bombing, and during ANHA agency’s correspondent Issam Abdullah’s coverage of a Turkish bombing that targeted the Taql Baqal Electricity Station. In the countryside of Derik, he was martyred as a result of a second raid by Turkish warplanes on citizens who rushed to treat the injured from the station.

T/ Satt.

ANHA