An oil ship has arrived in the oil port of Shabwa  of the eastern province to resume loading and exporting oil. The export operation comes after the recovery of production from the oil fields of al-Oqla three months ago.

A source at OMV, an Austrian company operating in al-Oqla region, said that the shipment would take three days to export the first oil shipment of 500,000 barrels to Aden refineries after the resumption of oil production by the company.

The source pointed out that the export process goes through three stages where the oil is shipped through tankers to tanks located in the area of Eyadh and then through the oil pipeline extending to the tanks of the port of Nasima oil and then onboard ships to Aden refineries.

The operation comes after a three-and-a-half-year hiatus since Shabwa governor Ahmed Ali Bahaj ordered the suspension of oil operations and dealing with the coupist militia in Sana'a in 2014.