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SYRIA

Mediterranean

  

Syria’s fields are rapidly depleting. New exploration programmes are being encouraged in the productive areas and new service contracts are being signed to upgrade production through EOR programmes.

 

Decline in output may be slowed but will not be reversed as the country, besides the offshore, is well explored. The country’s 1 bn Bbl field at Suwaidiyah in the northeast of the country was discovered in 1959 and production began in 1968. Output is now below 150,000 bpd, including production from nearby fields and the oil is heavy and sour.

 

A crude oil pipeline, built by the Iraq Petroleum Company in 1952, runs from Kirkuk in northern Iraq to the Syrian port of Banias. It was nationalized by both governments in 1972 then closed by Syria in 1982 during the Iran-Iraq war. Both sides agreed in 1998 to reopen the line and Iraq now wants to restore it to its original 800,000 Bbls per day capacity, eventually expanding it to 1.4 mm Bbls per day. Syria would build an export refinery at Banias in conjunction with expansion.

 

Government policy is to encourage gas substitution in order to maximize exports of crude oil and The Ministry of Petroleum has recently stated that current reserves (presumably including yet-to-find) in Syria are 23 Bn Bbls and that it plans to expand exploration between 2001 and 2010 to exploit them. It also intends to conduct an offshore licensing round.

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                                          

 

CAPITAL

 Damascus

 

Population

 18.9 million

 

Onshore area

(000's sq kms)

185.2

 

Offshore area

(000's sq kms)

NEW

 

OIL PEAK YEAR

1995

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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