UPDATED: US Government Helps Oil Company Sign Deal With Kurdish Administration in Northeast Syria
Posted by Scott Lucas | Dec 11, 2020 |
A US patrol at an oilfield in northeast Syria, October 28, 2019
UPDATE, DEC 11: The new US envoy for Syria has confirmed that the Trump Administration helped the company Delta Crescent secure an exclusive contract to market oil from fields in northeast Syria.
Joel Rayburn acknowledged the assistance, first reported in August in testimony to the House Foreign Affairs Committee. He said the Administration had worked with Delta Crescent and no other companies.
While maintaining, “We didn’t lobby anyone for the deal,” Rayburn said, “We’ve met with members of that company, with local authorities, with [President of the Iraqi Kurdistan Region] Nechirvan Barzani.”
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