Prime Minister Dr. Riyad Hijab chaired a meeting at the Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources to discuss means of continuing the work of the oil sector and increasing its productivity during the current crisis and the difficulties it faces due to the sanctions imposed on it.
Many websites talked about economic news, citing shipping sources on the arrival of three tankers carrying Iranian oil products to Syria, where its cargo unloaded at the port of Banias in the next week,
In an atmosphere of friendliness and intimacy was held at the Oil Ministry today 24/6 meeting of the two Ministers Saeed Heneidy Sufian Allaw , assistant minister and the general managers of institutions and companies affiliated to the Ministry and head of the Oil Marketing, during which honored the minister Allaw, and received and congratulate the minister Heneidy.
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resident Bashar Assad today Decree a resolution No. 210 for the formation of the new Syrian government, headed by Dr. Riad Hijab where Saeed was named , Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources. Successor to the Eng. Sufian Allaw.
A Venezuelan oil tanker is returning to Venezuela from Syria with a cargo of naphtha, shipping records showed on Thursday, after delivering badly needed diesel early this week as Western sanctions, causing severe shortages, hurt Syria's economy.
Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Sufyan Allaw said that the current shortage of cooking gas is due to the sanctions imposed by the EU on the petroleum sector in Syria, which aim at pressuring the Syrian people and threatening their livelihood.
Syria is facing a halt in imports of diesel, needed to power heavy vehicles including army
tanks, as a stream of shipments from Russia has dried up over the past four weeks, industry sources say.
Western sanctions on Syrian oil exports have cost the country nearly US$3 billion dollars in losses, Petroleum Minister Sufian Allaw said on Tuesday.
During a session on Monday chaired by Prime Minister Adel Safar, the Cabinet discussed the state of the petroleum sector and the difficulties facing it and means to overcome them.
Assistant Director-General of the General Organization of Geology Adel Zoubi said that regarding the development of uses of natural asphalt has government approval for a license to a Turkish company to build a refinery small site mines asphalt at the site of the human-west of Deir Al-Zour to produce derivatives of petroleum card 146 thousand tons per year of gasoline and diesel fuel, oils, different.
