Islamic State raises up to 50 million dollars per month from the sale of oil from the oil fields under its control in Iraq and Syria, which is part of the industry that airstrikes international coalition led by the US has failed to dismantle.

Sale of oil as the largest permanent source of income extremists is a key reason why they were able to keep power in their self-proclaimed Caliphate encompassing large parts of Syria and Iraq. Thanks to these funds extremists were able to withstand the land struggle with opponents for more than a year of air strikes in the campaign led by the United States.

Extremist group managed to bring equipment and brought technical experts from abroad to maintain the industry, which is why the US has recently stepped up efforts to stop such support.

Washington has spoken with regional governments, including Turkey, and warned of the import energy infrastructure in the territory under the control of the Islamic state in Syria, including equipment for the extraction, processing and transportation of energy, said a senior US official said. In an interview with the AP in Washington, he said that international actors in the region, intentionally or unintentionally help I

slamskoj in this country and said that this group has a very advanced equipment to control oil fields under its control.

The Islamic state is selling oil smugglers at lower prices, 35 or even to 10 dollars a barrel, compared with about $ 50 per barrel as oil is sold in international markets. The traffickers then sell oil to intermediaries in Turkey.

Oil was first transported in groups of more large tankers, but out of fear of airstrikes, is now used by smaller tankers. It is believed that the Islamic state removed about 30,000 barrels of oil per day in Syria, which smuggle brokers in neighboring Turkey.

Working are Iraqi and Turkish experts

In Iraq, they produce between 10,000 and 20,000 barrels per day, mostly from two oil fields outside Mosul, said a member of the Iraqi parliament's energy committee and a former oil minister Ibrahim Bahr al-Olum. According to him, a large part of the oil produced in Iraq is not going to sell, but is sent to Syria, where it is processed in makeshift refineries Islamic state.

Believed to be Islamic state earns between 40 and 50 million dollars a month in sales, said the Iraqi official. Report a sort of Ministry of Finance of the Islamic state, which is the AP had access to Baghdad, shows that oil revenues only in Syria amounted to 46.7 million dollars in April. In this report it is estimated that the Islamic state has under its control 253 oil fields in Syria, of whom, according to this source, the 161 field functional. Oilfield work 275 engineers and 1,107 workers, according to the report.

The Islamic state is leading the network of small, makeshift refineries set up in trailers whose production partially meet domestic needs. Turkish and Kurdish teams to travel by land in territory under the control of the Islamic state under a strong security to work in the oil fields and refineries. At these plants engaged and senior officials from Iraq's state oil companies.

According to an Iraqi official Iraqi petroleum engineers from Islamic states get a daily allowance of $ 300 to nearly $ 1,000. Those who buy oil often paid remittance women members of the Islamic countries in Istanbul and Ankara on the assumption that women are attracted less attention, and that money was later transferred manually in Iraq and in Syria, said one of the Iraqi intelligence officials.

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