{"id":12194,"date":"2024-01-22T12:50:13","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T12:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mesopotamia.coop\/?p=12194"},"modified":"2024-01-29T13:15:40","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T13:15:40","slug":"sweidiya-gas-plant-destroyed-by-turkish-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mesopotamia.coop\/sweidiya-gas-plant-destroyed-by-turkish-strikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweidiya gas plant destroyed by Turkish strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) \u2013&nbsp;<\/strong>Co-chair of the Energy Office of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES), Akram Suleiman, said on Tuesday that the&nbsp;Sweidiya gas plant is \u201c100 percent destroyed\u201d and cannot be rehabilitated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Turkish drone strikes targeted the&nbsp;Sweidiya gas plant in the countryside of the city of <a href=\"https:\/\/mesopotamia.coop\/cities\/derik-derik-al-malikiyah\/\">Derik<\/a>, far-northeastern Syria, several times over the past few days. The most heavy attack was yesterday, Monday [15 January, 2024].<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Suleiman added that on Monday at 10:15 PM, Turkish drones targeted the Sweidiya gas plant, the only one in&nbsp;northeastern Syria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He noted that the Turkish strikes directly targeted five electrical turbines, destroying them completely. In addition, seven gas turbines and power converters have also been targeted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Suleiman explained that the facility is now out of service and completely destroyed, adding that it cannot be rehabilitated in any way. He pointed out that this plant is crucial for the region as it provides electricity to vital service facilities such as <a href=\"https:\/\/mesopotamia.coop\/category\/water\/\">water<\/a> wells, hospitals, mills, and other service institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Agid Abdulmajid, the director of the Sweidiya gas plant, said that the attack has damaged the majority of the devices, in addition to hitting the spherical gas tanks. The firefighting teams were unable to control the fire until the tanks ran out of gas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He explained that the production of gas and electricity has completely stopped, and the process of repair and reconstruction is very difficult, requiring significant resources in terms of workshops and necessary materials. They need a long time, extending for months, to carry out the repair and rehabilitation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Abdulmajid also pointed out that the initial cost of&nbsp;repairing the plant is estimated at $1 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sweidiya gas plant is destroyed by the Turkish attacks \u2013 AANES official\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MVvFL4vyFW0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey has established a systematic practice of targeting NES\u2019 power infrastructure in period airstrike campaigns, usually lasting several days. Amongst Turkey\u2019s key targets is the Suwaydiyah gas and electricity station. This vital station is NES\u2019 only domestic gas bottling plant and a key source of electricity for vital services such as hospitals, mills, bakeries and oil extraction facilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12196,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[232,301],"tags":[315],"class_list":["post-12194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ecology","category-water","tag-rojava-information-center"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"The article below by by\u00a0Saad al-Yaziji was originally published by <a href=\"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/110184\/\">North Press Agency<\/a> on 16 January, 2024. Please also see the report '<a href=\"https:\/\/rojavainformationcenter.org\/2024\/01\/turkish-airstrikes-on-suwaydiyah-power-station-documenting-the-damage\/\">Turkish airstrikes on Suwaydiyah power station: documenting the damage<\/a>' published by Rojava Information Center on 22 January, 2024","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mesopotamia.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mesopotamia.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mesopotamia.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mesopotamia.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mesopotamia.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12194"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/mesopotamia.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12225,"href":"https:\/\/mesopotamia.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12194\/revisions\/12225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mesopotamia.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mesopotamia.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mesopotamia.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mesopotamia.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}