Syria has just put a big Western flag in its gas patch. The state-owned Syrian Petroleum Company has signed a memorandum of understanding with ConocoPhillips and U.S.-based Novaterra to develop existing gas fields and hunt for new ones, in a bid to drag the country’s power sector out of wartime …
Read More »Syria Eyes Pipeline Lifeline as Post-Assad Power Struggle Escalates
Syria’s caretaker government is moving to restore the Kirkuk-Baniyas oil pipeline with Iraq, a strategic corridor that had the capacity to move up to 300,000 barrels per day to Syria’s Mediterranean coast before war and sanctions shut it down in the early 2000s. Syrian Energy Minister Mohammed al-Bashir will travel …
Read More »Syria Attempts to Revive Oil Pipeline with Iraq
Syrian Energy Minister Mohammed al-Bashir announced that he will soon travel to Baghdad, the capital of Iraq, to discuss reviving a significant project with the Iraqi government. In a televised interview, al-Bashir said that he will soon visit Iraq to discuss the rehabilitation of the oil pipeline linking the northern …
Read More »Russia Ships Its Arctic Oil to Syria for First Time as Sanctions Limit Buyers
Two tankers hit by US sanctions are due to offload Russian Arctic Oil in Syria for the first time, days after Moscow made its first known delivery of diesel there in more than a decade, according to LSEG data, a government source and local TV. One of the tankers, Aquatica, …
Read More »Syria to Receive Electricity-Generating Ships from Qatar and Turkey
Syria will receive two electricity-generating ships from Turkey and Qatar to boost energy supplies hit by damage to infrastructure during President Bashar al-Assad’s rule, state news agency SANA quoted an official as saying on Tuesday. Khaled Abu Dai, director general of the General Establishment for Electricity Transmission and Distribution, told …
Read More »Turkey Says It’s Ready to Supply Electricity to Syria and Lebanon
Turkey is working to resolve the energy supply issues in Syria and is ready to provide electricity to the country, where Ankara supported the rebels who toppled Bashar al-Assad earlier this month, Turkish Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar said on Monday. “The vast majority of people meet their electricity needs with …
Read More »Turkey Eyes Role in Syrian Oil and Gas Production
Turkey has signaled it wants to take part in the revival of oil and gas production in Syria, Bloomberg has reported, citing a statement by Turkey’s energy minister. Speaking to the media, Alparslan Bayraktar said that Turkey was working to help Syria with its electricity supply, adding that expanding this …
Read More »Syrian Oil Supply Crisis Deepens as Iraq Cuts Exports
Iraq has suspended crude oil deliveries to Syria, a member of the Iraqi parliament said on social media as quoted by BNE Intellinews. The statement coincided with one by Iraq’s foreign minister, who expressed concern about the security situation in the country that was taken over Islamist groups. “Iraq has …
Read More »Iraq to Dispatch Fuel to Syria, Turkey after Earthquake Disaster
Iraq will dispatch 60,000 tons of fuel oil to neighboring Syria following last week’s deadly earthquakes that killed thousands. In a statement, the Iraqi government said the aid shipment will be delivered to the Syrian side through Al-Mikhtaf area in the Iraqi territorial waters. The statement said the aid shipment …
Read More »Iran, Syria Enjoy High Potential to Boost Coop. In Oil Sector
Syrian Minister of Oil and Mineral Resources described cooperation between the oil ministries of Iran and Syria as good, emphasizing that the two countries have high capacity to increase bilateral cooperation in oil sector. Bassam Tomeh made the remarks on Sunday on the sidelines of the 3rd International Exhibition of …
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