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Refining ISIS Oil: Images From A Syrian Cottage Industry
From the time Turkey ambushed and downed a Russian Su-24 near the Syrian border late last month, the world has developed a fascination with Islamic State’s illicit and highly lucrative oil smuggling business.
Although there are multiple accounts which purport to explain how the group ultimately gets its oil to market, the general consensus is that there are a series of trafficking routes that all converge on the Turkish port of Ceyhan. The Russian defense ministry says it’s identified at least three such routes and a report by Al-Araby al-Jadeed documented the path the illegal crude takes from northern Iraq to the southeast coast of Turkey.
While no one has yet offered any conclusive evidence to prove that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his family are behind the trade, there’s quite a bit of circumstantial and anecdotal evidence to tie Ankara to “Raqqa’s Rockefellers” (if you will).
And while everyone loves watching Russian MoD clips of oil tankers barreling across the Turkish border without so much as slowing down, what you don’t see that often are images from the various cottage industries that have grown up around Islamic State’s oil trade.
Below are several pictures of a makeshift refinery near Idlib (the site of Tuesday’s Russian airstrike on a fuel market) which Reuters says runs on Islamic State oil.
Men work at a makeshift oil refinery site in Marchmarin town, southern countryside of Idlib, Syria December 16, 2015. The refinery site, owned by Yousef Ayoub, 34, has been active for 4 months. Ayoub says that he gets the crude oil from Islamic State-controlled areas in Deir al-Zor province and Iraq. The price for a barrel of crude oil varies and is controlled by the Islamic State, but it is currently at $44 dollars per barrel, he said.
A youth works at a makeshift oil refinery site in Marchmarin town, southern countryside of Idlib, Syria December 16, 2015. Islamic State is looking at potentially vulnerable oil assets in Libya and elsewhere outside its Syria stronghold, where the militant group controls about roughly 80 percent of the oil and gas fields, a senior U.S. official said.
A worker shows off the final fuel product at a makeshift oil refinery site in Marchmarin town, southern countryside of Idlib, Syria December 16, 2015.
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Looks like Texas.
jk
Those aren't Texans though...
But they use the same trucks!
Alibaba Akbar? ;-)
Looney
Grandmaster P, on the scene. Ready to bomb the shit out a that Isis infrastructure motherfucker.
Erodagan and baby Bilial weep with every smoking truck and refinery.
Please, please Turkey, put some F16s in the air to protect Erodagans stolen booty...You know he's thinking about it.
No need to bomb it....from the looks of it, safety was not designed into his system. If it runs a year without blowing up and killing that kid, it will be a miracle.
Wonder how much more toxic the human exposure it is to crack the hydrocarbon chains in this fashion. Things don't look well contained. And as far as the environment is concerned I bet there are no rules whatsoever on how to deal with hazardous waste products. Do they burn or dump their wastes?
But we musn't bomb them because we don't want to cause environmental damage.
The fact that those idiots are smoking while handling refined fuels is hilarious. There is no way that operation has been in business for 4 months...
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Just goes to prove that Toyotas will run on damn near anything short of diesel fuel
TexMex
Could be illegals...
Love the image of him pouring fuel (and later displaying fuel) with a cigar between his fingers.
I love it, theses guys are geniuses !
Smoking a rollie while checking the fuel !
Brilliant
Smoking is a hazard to yoar health. We don't allow that on the TV or pictures anymoar. They're still a free country.
I saw that too. It's like he's at the bar pouring himself a drink.
Spotted it, too. I thought ISIS banned booze and smoking. Must not be a bad muslim.
They are making diesel fuel and FYI diesel does not burn with cigarette. Do an experiment, throw a cigarette in a cup of diesel and see. cigarette temperature is too low to ignite diesel .
The fumes will though and when he pops that hatch above the big tub of product while he holds a smoke he will get a haircut eventually.
Holy shit, I could be tooling around in my Royal Carriage on that ghetto swill.
I am Chumbawamba.
You sir are an ISIS representative.
GO IsIs! We Luv ISIS!
I wish they could use Bitcoin, I would become millionaire and retire in an island or in country side, oh God !!!
ISIS will never surrender to the Shitcoin!
No way - is that cigarette he's holding in those pics?!
Turkish cigar
With the margarita..?
Old Gordy at VT had an interesting Radio show this week. There is ONE fucking road in that area from Syria into Turkey. Seems USAF couldn't find that one road loaded from horizion to horizion with tanker trucks for the last 9 months headed into our NATO friends in Turkey.
I guess a line of trucks is hard to spot....and even harder to hit doing 50 mph. Apparently it's much easier trashing Syria's water purification plants, sewage treatment plants and electrical infrastructure. Go US Air Farce....yaaaayyyyyyyyyyyy.
Fancy that.
Do you have a link who hit the water treatment plant? Reuters said it was a 'double-tap' where a second strike is done to kill first responders. That is a US tactic but it certainly could be copied. Anyway, fuck the air farce pilot that took that mission. Assuming it is a US pilot, I wish to remind you that your oath doesn't include war crimes.
Blindmonkey: "Do you have a link who hit the water treatment plant?"
SOP since GW-I Bomb the infrastructure in hopes of getting the civilians to turn on the leadership. A few years of wallowing in your own feces and drinking brown water seems to be how the Pentagon likes to treat civilians. Apparently that's what's taught at the Point. The whole problem is all it really does is piss off the gen-pop at the fly-bois and USA. That little fact never seems to filter back to these shores. But, in the end, creating more and more terrorists by dropping Freedum Bombs is job security for the MIC.
".....more than a third of water treatment plants have been destroyed, while by the end of 2012, the amount of safe water consumed by families across Syria had already fallen 40 per cent from pre-crisis levels."
https://www.unicefusa.org/stories/mission/emergencies/conflict/syria/uni...
https://www.unicefusa.org/related-content/Syrian%20Crisis/Syria
Actually this is how the Democrats get new voters.
Did they practice by bombing Flint Michigan's safe water supplies?
Place certainly looks like a middle east warzone.
Apparently it's much easier trashing Syria's water purification plants, sewage treatment plants and electrical infrastructure.
We have salesmen standing by to sell them new installations.........
The US doesn't have the capability to stop this. Those guys have spy satelite blocking operations running 24-7. There is no way Langley can disrupt this type of business. Obviously these geniuses will make Billions of dollars to finance their caliphate. If only the US could ban guns in the L-48 we might have a chance at stopping terrorism.
Syria must be demolished so the greater israel shithole can expand.
Stupid propaganda. Islamic caliphate shithole is the goal.
While no one has yet offered any conclusive evidence to prove that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his family are behind the trade"
Ummm, no. They're busted 20 times over. Ya just gott to dig a little bit deeper to get to the bone marrow.
I hope it's windy there because that cinder block pit/collection area will have some serious fume accumulation.
So what do they refine it to? Diesel? Kerosene? Gasoline?
lol obviously diesel.... Did you look at the photos?
And on to Turkey and Israel...
Hand Made in Syria by talented artisans - Boutique Gasoline, available only at select stores....
dude is holding that cigarette like a boss while handling flammable fuel...
a cigarette goes out if stuck in gasoline.
So few know that.
Depends a lot on the fumes.
True. It's also true that diesel wont usually light but the last time I saw somebody try to prove that it did light up. It was funny, it was a quick flash but the top was burning. I've seen people do all kinds of stupid things including filling open ended metal pipe pieces with with gas and lighting it, things go wrong.
They are making diesel and diesel does not ignite with cigarette. One more thing diesel also does not evaporate. so if your truck/car mat is stained with diesel it is hard to get rid of its smell.
diesel = oil (sunflower oil off the shelf runs better than diesel, with a pleasant smell to it)
gasoline = gas (evaporates)
Small diesel spills will usually evaporate and disperse naturally within a day or less. -NOAA.gov
google 'does diesel evaporate'...it will not completely evaporate and will leave an oil stain that will never go away on its own in fabric. I would not be smoking near diesel fumes. Ask a trucker if he would fill up while smoking, the stench of the pump will tell your brain to not light up, unless your brain has been rotted by huffing gas. In that case, you are probably fucked anyways.
There is a limited audience for 75 octane.
Is that all it takes? Are all the refineries I see just elaborate make-work projects for scientists and pipe fitters? Exxon/mobil should hire these guys
Send Gina McCarthy and Thomas Perez over there (along with all their coworkers).... At least one problem is bound to be fixed as a result.
No it's not that simple, unless you don't care about environmental emissions, toxic waste, product consistency and quality, waste minimization, output maximization, and labor/safety conditions...
If you scaled up that operation up to meet the USSA's needs, no else in the world would have any oil, there would be no plastic or any of the other critical products made from oil, and huge sections of the Untied States would be toxic wastelands.
All those other 'products' could be considered toxic waste by themselves so I'm not sure that more refining is better. Looks like they have some diesel and some asphalt that they can patch roofs or pave their dirt roads with. Think of all the water they will save by not washing the dust off their diesel burning Ford F-250.
You are such an imbecil.
That stuff's going straight down the M5 to points south (#7 to #91)
That's how the Southern Rebels pay for their bills at the IDF hospital in Ziv, Israel. If you sell a lot, you get to shake Bibi's well-greased hands, and toast "Lechaim to Erez Yisrael!"
Sorry, was that a crude joke about crude people?
They dont sell directly to Israel. It gets sold to a middlemen chain which includes Israel. The end consumers are in Europe.
The jihadis pay for the hospitals by not attacking Israel, by keeping, as best as they can, Hezbollah out of the border zone and by promising Israel all sorts of goodies after the war is over. We´ll see.
The best quality product a turkish cigar cannot ignite.... That dude is either dumb, blind or he thinks he is a fking Chuck Norris
I've been thinking of trying that in my back yard...
Look at those filthy polluting mother fucking idiots. Where's the fucking EPA....How about those Climate change Fuckers and their emmission standards. That place is a total shit hole. Filthy stinking oilfield with spills everywhere.....at least you're not worried about contaminating and sterilizing real dirt.....WTF........I know a bunch of farmers (me included) who would gladly make a trip to the gulf to buy one of those oil transports full of diesel they can't find storage for.....If we can get rid of the fucking middlemen we'd have some 25 cent.gallon diesel for planting season....
That's pretty cool. They should watch out for aircraft though.
I doubt I'd be wrong to think these guys happily wave as they go by.
Isn't this ISIS oil thing quite the canard?
Islamic refineries look like bad meth labs.
Sewage treatment sites here are more hygenic.
https://auribusarrectis.wordpress.com/2015/12/17/884/
Update from our Dec. 3 installment, concerning allegations in the French edition of Novorossia Today of Bilal Erdo?an’s shipping fleet transporting ISIL oil to Ukraine. Nikolaev is the last known port of the BMZ Group tanker Armada Fair (ATD 2015-12-01 18:42). From there it proceeded to the vicinity of Mersin, where it anchored but did not dock, according to the Automatic Identification System (AIS) data. Much of the scrutiny concerning the ISIS oil trade has focused on nearby Ceyhan. Armada Fair then quickly proceeded through the Adriatic at the time of an incident between the Russian destroyer Smetlivy and a Turkish fishing boat. It passed through the Bosporus on Tuesday 12/15 and then, upon entering the Black Sea, apparently turned off its AIS, as the last “ping” was received at 2015-12-15 16:19 UTC, when the Armada Fair went silent for 34 hours, before reappearing in the North West of the Black Sea in the morning of Dec. 17 (02:18 UTC). It is now on a route to the Ukrainian port of Dneprobugsky (ETA 2015-12-17 15:00). The ship had been set to arrive at the Russian Port of Kavkaz (ETA 2015-12-17 04:00) before changing its itinerary somewhere in the Black Sea. (It should be noted that Kavkaz and Nikolaev are equidistant from the Bosporus.) Needless to say, the AIS information coming from this ship is highly irregular and does arouse suspicion as to the business it is conducting. – Traffic data courtesy of MarineTraffic.com.
These guys are not good at the 'market' they shouldn't of hedged at $44/barrel. They could buy a tanker load at $34/barrel today.....economics is not their strong suit. (haha, unless this is some fine light sweet crude).
Hey Homer. C'mon over here and taste this hooch.
Wrongo dongo.
It should read as such:
Refining Stolen babylonian Oil For isreal: Images From A Thieving Evil Industry in the us/isrealli defended/invaded part of Syria
There, fixed it for ya. Truth spoken to power. See how easy it is. Any third grader can do that, unless they are conditioned to ONLY know that, 2+2=5.
Anyone playing stupid or perpetuating ANY of the multitude of evil farces the babylonian govts use to control the nations, is just that in the world's view. STUPID!..and ALL will be henceforth labelled as: STUPID-farceing liars, pushing the whole evil satanic farce agenda of black is white, up is down, everything they say is opposite of the truth in the most pure evil satanic way of double-speak, and there is absolutely nothing to worry about at all. Everything is juuuuust hunkie dory.
Yeah, right. What a waste of vital life-force energy to even hear that dribbling spew from the horses dork. If one views from that aspect of knowing how evil operates, all the horsewash that is spewed into the matrix day after day is all so easy to see for what it all is. Puke! Evil diarrhoea of the mouth from all the talking head propagandists spewing the satanic EVIL agenda of everything opposite of the truth. It is the evil evil evil satanic way. Sucker for it now...suffer for it later.
ENUFF!!!
NO MOAR!!!
No moar of the continued charades, lies, DECEPTIONS called news, and outright BS from babylons media machine, or its many puppets of the dark. STANDARD: if it is not love, what is it?
Extra Credit: Why does barry sotero, the illegal alien usurper, take all his people west of say, the fallout line of any jet stream winds blowing east by going to leach off Hawaii, and to spend the tax payers money on his families and assorted slave servants and protectors vacation/hideaway; say, knowing something he is in cahoots with might happen on, or around Christmas Time as he did by going to south america after the fuckushima nuklear blast?? They knew the fallout was going to hit the entire usa so he and his whole family chickened out and ran and now, people are getting weaker slowly dying all over the country from that nuklear fallout that hit after the March Nuklear Explosion.
All as planned of course.
Funny how evil shit happens in March.
Like for sure, everybody knows they have saved Christmas or New Years to out right state-sponsor something horribly terroristic as usual, using the bankster puppet ziostate of isreal, or even to sneak something through like a dicktator gun bill, or sumptin?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h27HRNm_r4U
Everybody knows something is coming soon and exactly WHO(obama) is going to be fully responsible for it making him the very most hated, and absolutely the very worst fake president of the USA in it's entire history.
The Evil is so thick, the people are blinded to the easy lies and deceptions that only one group of things on earth profess at being number one at. Yes, that bunch of no counts, the mo-sad. One would be sad to work as a slave to evil all ones life so the grand owner and puppet Master rothchid bankster clan of Evil could profit and then also know how they plan to sacrifice the entire region for their population elimination and profiteering elitist ideals of world domination and total control by the few evil things on top of the pyramid, and beyond. Dead men(nations) tell no tales of the deception they used to raise the evil up to it's present place in the material world.
For all those underlings and pig eating dweebles that perpetuate the evil, they will be the first to go WHEN the earth ship hits the rocks. Be Christ like...simply be Aware.
Preparation is nine-tenths of the Law of Survival. Those who are not preparing to survive the coming false flag event, are preparing to die in the chaos they are going to purposely create for the corporate military power grab. The takeover. Just as good Jack Mc Lamb warned about so long ago in his, Vampire Killer for Police Against The New World oder.:.
https://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Uploads/001/Media/Operation_Vampire_Kill...
Hummmm...tings to ponderate on, eh?
Yo noid...yappy doodle doo...screw!!
***
Knock...knock...knock...
Who goeth there...
Blah!!!!
That!...is the new pass...Word.
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.: .:. :.
That micro refinery ain't processing crude for Israel, that is for local consumption, gotta keep those Toyotas running.
Israel is perfectly capable of refining crude properly itself.
"That micro refinery ain't processing crude for Israel,..."
Thanks for the clarification. You are saying that isreal is NOT getting any Stolen Oil From Syria?
American's know how to create highways of death:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhmXleZXAr0
America did not/does not want to blow up oil tanker trucks, or interdict Daesh oil for money gambit. Daesh and the Sunni's Takfiris are a new foreign legion of mercenary fighters..
A squadron of A-10s would make short work of tanker trucks lined up in a nice row.
See Something Kill Something
Nah, thanks, $44 oil the barrel is much too expensive. I can buy at almost $34.50 the barrel here http://www.investing.com/commodities/crude-oil-streaming-chart
Sand Nigger Rigged!
Sand Nigger Rigged!
It's just terrible this fuel will be sold without the required 10% ethanol content.
Oil is better than blood : unquoteByErDOGan
with all of those Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) on the ground I am glad to know the Paris Climate Summit will end the ISIS environmental pollution.
Road warrior worthy. Its official now, Mad Max has started.