General Petroleum Corporation in collaboration with the Swedish SVENSKA holds workshop on methods and investment contracts and prospecting for oil in Syrian territorial waters
As General Petroleum Corporation is preparing tender books and the required documents for the announcement to launch the exploration activities in the Syrian territorial water, and for the purpose of having benefit from the international companies’ experiment in this field, a workshop has been set up in corporation with SVENSKA Sweden, who has submitted a presentation about methods and contracts of investment and oil and gas prospecting, especially in the deep water simulating the work environment and circumstances in the Syrian territorial water.
Professor Gerhard Tonhauser from the University of Montan Lebon Delivered a lecture at General Petroleum Corporation building about the studies conducted to analyze the performance of the drilling of oil wells in the actual time spent on drilling rigs.
In The presence of Oil Minister Sufian Allaw the Technical Advisory Committee in the Syrian Oil Company earlier this month held its second annual meeting under the chairmanship of Mr. Omar Hamad Director General of the Syrian Oil Company where he was displaying the data production for oil and gas fields in the Syrian Oil Company and the results of prospecting and exploration and changes up the hydrocarbon for these fields.
Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Eng. Sufian Allaw during a working meeting with Director General of the General Organization of Petroleum Ali Abbas, Director General of the Syrian Gas Company, Eng Hussein Wadaa and staff headquarters in the Syrian Gas Company in Homs discussed the reality of the company’s operations and production for the two current and past difficulties encountered and ways to overcome to serve the development and implementation of production plans.
During the first half of 2010, the amount of petroleum produced in Syria reached 69.9 million barrels of light crude oil, heavy crude oil and condensates, with a rate of 386,000 barrels per day marking an increase of 10,986 barrels from the same period in 2009.
Within the framework of the preparations undertaken by the General Petroleum Corporation for the announcement of drilling for oil and gas in Syrian territorial waters, a workshop was held in the building of GPC in cooperation with Italy’s ENI oil focused on the methods and investment contracts and oil exploration in deep water and shallow with a group of specialists.
the Directorate General of Ports and the Syrian Company for oil Transportation and the Ministry of State for Affairs of the environment Implemented statement by default in the port of Banias on combating oil pollution at sea in case of emergency, in the context of the implementation plan of the national emergency preparedness and response to marine pollution incidents and to raise the efficiency of workers for rapid intervention in case of oil pollution emergency .



