Air strikes target Daesh oil revenue

Daesh makes around $1.5 million a day from oil fields under its control in Syria, charging traders between $10 and $35 a barrel. Refined fuel is sold in its self-proclaimed “caliphate”, rebel-held north, and in Turkey

Control and support for Daesh (so-called Islamic State)

Oil fields

Coalition air base

Russian air base

Kurdish control

Rebel-held

Syrian regime

Khmeimim

Incirlik

TURKEY

IRAN

Mosul

Irbil

Raqqa

Aleppo

Sinjar

Hama

Kirkuk

Qayyara

Deir

al-Zawr

Homs

Tikrit

LEB.

Palmyra

Oil producing region

SYRIA

Baghdad

Al Asad

Damascus

Ramadi

Habbaniyah

100km

JORDAN

IRAQ

60 miles

Muwaffaq Salti

Raqqa

Jabseh

Oil fields controlled

by Daesh

Sinjar

Production

(barrels per day, est.)

Deir al-Zawr

Deiro

Tabqa

Tanak

Omar

Qayyara

Jabseh

Tabqa

Kharata

Shoula

Deiro

Taim

15,000

9,000

8,000

2,500

1,500

1,000

650

600

400

Kharata

IRAQ

Omar

Shoula

Taim

Tanak

SYRIA

DEIR

AL-ZAWR

80km

al-Qaim

50 miles

Refineries controlled by Daesh

1. Tabqa, 2. Tayyaneh, 3. Mayadeen, 4. Bukamal (two units)

Sources: Associated Press, Financial Times

Air strikes target Daesh oil revenue

Oil fields

Control and support for Daesh (so-called Islamic State)

Coalition air base

Russian air base

Kurdish control

Rebel-held

Syrian regime

TURKEY

Khmeimim

Incirlik

Mosul

Irbil

Raqqa

Sinjar

Aleppo

Kirkuk

Qayyara

Deir

al-Zawr

Tikrit

LEB.

Al Asad

Oil producing

region

Baghdad

SYRIA

Damascus

Ramadi

Habbaniyah

JORDAN

100km

IRAQ

Muwaffaq Salti

60 miles

Raqqa

Jabseh

Sinjar

Deir al-Zawr

Deiro

Tabqa

Kharata

IRAQ

Omar

Shoula

Taim

Tanak

SYRIA

DEIR

AL-ZAWR

80km

al-Qaim

50 miles

Oil fields controlled by Daesh

Production

(barrels per day, est.)

Tanak

Omar

Qayyara

Jabseh

Tabqa

Kharata

Shoula

Deiro

Taim

15,000

9,000

8,000

2,500

1,500

1,000

650

600

400

Refineries controlled by Daesh
1. Tabqa, 2. Tayyaneh,
3. Mayadeen, 4. Bukamal (two units)

Sources: Associated Press, Financial Times

Air strikes target Daesh oil revenue

Control and support for Daesh (so-called Islamic State)

Oil fields

Coalition air base

Russian air base

Kurdish control

Rebel-held

Syrian regime

TURKEY

Irbil

Incirlik

Khmeimim

Mosul

Deir

al-Zawr

Aleppo

Qayyara

Tikrit

SYRIA

Oil

producing

region

Damascus

Al Asad

Ramadi

Muwaffaq Salti

Habbaniyah

JORDAN

IRAQ

SAUDI

ARABIA

100km

60 miles

Raqqa

Jabseh

Sinjar

Deir al-Zawr

Deiro

Tabqa

Kharata

Omar

Shoula

Taim

Tanak

DEIR

AL-ZAWR

80km

al-Qaim

Oil fields controlled by Daesh

Production

(barrels per day, est.)

Tanak

Omar

Qayyara

Jabseh

Tabqa

Kharata

Shoula

Deiro

Taim

15,000

9,000

8,000

2,500

1,500

1,000

650

600

400

Refineries controlled by Daesh
1. Tabqa, 2. Tayyaneh,
3. Mayadeen, 4. Bukamal (two units)

Sources: Associated Press, Financial Times

Graphic shows Daesh-controlled oil facilities in Syria and Iraq.

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Daesh oil business

By Duncan Mil

December 4, 2015 - Britain has begun a wave of air strikes on Daesh-controlled oil fields aimed at cutting off the terror group's source of funding -- which could hit its ability to hire jihadist fighters in the Middle East and abroad.

Daesh makes around $47 million a month from selling crude from oil fields under its control in Iraq and Syria. The oil is sold for between $10 and $35 a barrel to smugglers, who in turn sell to middlemen in Turkey.