Yemen aims to increase its crude oil production by 25 percent to 75,000 barrels per day in the coming months to recover from the drastically reduced output caused by the civil war.

Yemen produced around 127,000 barrels per day before the conflict and is estimated by the US Energy Information Administration to have about 3 billion barrels of oil reserves.

The civil war has shuttered its Aden refinery and damaged its infrastructure, said Aws Abdullah Al-Awd, the energy minister of Yemen's internationally recognized government under President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi.

Consequently, there were doubts about Yemen's ability to rehabilitate the sector soon.

According to Awd, they have put forward a plan to reexport crude oil from the Marib and Shabwa oil fields and have rehabilitated the Al-Nashama oil port on the Arabian Sea.

Yemen has two primary crude oil streams, with Marib producing light and sweet crude and Masila proving medium-gravity and more sulfur-rich variety.

The country is also creating more pipelines and raising the 600,000 barrels of storage capacity at Nashima port, which is much less than the 3 million barrels in Houthi-controlled Ras Issa port.

The minister added that with improved security and speedy recovery of global energy markets, Yemen could resume the production and exportation of liquefied natural gas from the Balhaf facility by next year.

France's Total operated the plant.