The European Union and the United States have imposed wide-reaching sanctions against Syria, including an embargo on crude imports, 

ONGC Videsh Ltd is talking to Indian refiners about the feasibility of lifting Syrian crude, Singh said.

India does not import any crude from Syria. Reuters in September reported that ONGC was considering shipping Syrian crude to India.

"The European Union oil import sanction prohibits only EU countries from importing Syrian crude oil," Singh said.

"OVL is pursuing with Indian refining companies the feasibility of lifting of crude oil from Syria."

Singh said output from oil fields of Al Furat project in Syria, in which ONGC has a stake, was scaled back by about 17 percent from mid-September on the advise of Syrian government.

Before September the project was producing oil and condensate at the rate of 85,000 barrels per day, he said, adding currently the project is producing crude oil and condensate at the rate of 70,500 bpd.

State refiner Hindustan Petroleum (HPCL.NS) had engaged Shipping Corp of India (SCI.NS) to hire a vessel to import Syrian crude, a source told Reuters last month.

Provisional fixtures show that SCI managed to hire Greece-based Eurotankers’ Remi vessel to import crude on behalf of HPCL, but two sources privy to the development said that this fixture did not materialise.

Syrian produces 385,000 barrels per day, or less than 0.5 percent of global supply, and exports around 150,000 bpd mainly to refineries in Europe.

It can only refine up to 240,000 bpd so it does not have anywhere near enough spare capacity to process all the crude it has been selling to Europe.

Allaw briefed today on the work carried out at the institute and meeting with the charge of it was allocated 50 percent of the number of students for the people of the eastern region as there will be a trade-off in general to accept 50 percent of the students, while the section would be left to the children of the areas, noting that the Institute has 17 rooms dedicated to the establishment of students studying outside the Deir ez Zor and countryside near also includes 10 laboratories and 5 rooms for teaching that can hold room for 48 students and 11 administrative division in addition to gardens and excellent facilities, pointing out that it will be given a monthly salary amounting to 600 for. as each student in the Institute to help him complete his studies.

The Minister clarified that 100 students will be accepted, almost through the next academic year, distributed in terms of reference for mechanical machinery and rotary instrumentation and control, while will be added to specialists new in the school year followed by a number of students studying in the institute to between 200 to 250 students, pointing out that the graduates appointed a provision in the oil companies immediately after graduation.

Allaw said that future plan includes the building of an integrated system of study and training oil for the Eastern Region In addition to al-Furat Institute updated there a similar institute in Rumelan Institute mainly in Homs has been instructed to study the establishment of secondary vocational oil at the site of field Tim also agrees with the Holders of a certificate of basic education will be Setup and take action to start the reception of students during the academic year 2011-2012, thus obtaining an integrated system in the province include secondary institutes oil and the College of Engineering petrochemical and training centers first in the field of roses, a global center coaching staff petroleum engineers, technicians, and second place in the gas plant cobblestone pointing he is working to bring the National Center for Training in the area Alfrqls in the province of Homs and to train technical personnel as needed.

The meeting discussed ways to accelerate the completion of shortcomings in the Institute and secure teaching and administrative staff and efficient procedures necessary to complete the laboratory equipment, furniture and materials that students will be trained by a practical way.

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During a tour in Hayyan Gas Factory and the National Training Center, Minister Allaw pointed out that the factory is the third of its kind after inaugurating two gas factories. The first is in the south of the Central region, and the second is in Ebla.

The Minister clarified that the project provides 200 job opportunities of various specialties of technicians, engineers, administrative posts, and workers as the factory will operate by national hands being one of the important projects that increase gas quantities available for use.

He pointed out that the contracting cost of the project is 291 million euros, funded by Hayyan Company in partnership with Croatian Ena Company and the General Establishment for Oil and Gas, in addition to the contractor company Petrofac. The executive company is the Syrian national company of Leed which is installing various machines in the factory.

minister said during his tour to the National Training Center at the site al-Bessah area in Alfrqls the National Center for training and qualifying workers in the oil and gas field will be announced under actual investment early next year as is currently being constructed and equipped to train their cadres in the field of oil, gas and acquire experience and knowledge that lead to increase productivity and raise quality.

The Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources ,added the National Training Centre is a grant provided by the company Petrofac, which promised to implement a Ebla and Hayyan plants for gas production and includes a number of laboratories and workshops, training, and an auditorium addition to the 64 residential rooms to accommodate about 100 trainees explaining that he will provide the Centre for Aids necessary and sophisticated facilities will be working on bringing in foreign coaches during their first year of training and rehabilitation of a number of national cadres to carry out the rest of the turn of the training for workers in the oil and gas in addition to that the center will attract cadres of Arab and foreign countries for training in it.

The Minister pointed out that the current plans of the Ministry notes the completion of processing center by the end of September next and preparing to put it under actual investment from October next pointing to the existence of spaces and locations within the center can be invested and take advantage of expansion in the future to train workers from the rest of the terms of reference in the field of oil exploration, refining and production .

Then he reviewed with concerned persons in Hayyan plant oil and gas and the national training center stages of the projects.

Hayyan Petroleum Company is a joint venture between the GPC and INA Croatian Company with 50 percent share to each side and began implementation in 2005 of drilling and production.

Eg.Abdou Hossam El Din, Deputy Oil Minister, Ali Abbas, director general of GPC and Omar Hamad, Director General of the SPC and Ali Derbolli Director of the South Central Region Gas Plant, , Ibrahim Khaddour Chairman Hayyan Petroleum and Nizar Assaad, chairman of the Lid Company .accompanied the Minister in his tour.

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Welding Operations of this line where started on 1st June, and the total length of welded line about 6,5 km elongated expected completion of the project in the first half of 2011.

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Arab gas pipeline project is an actual start of the first Arab gas network in the region and will form the network in the future the main artery for gas transport between Arab countries and to link with the network in Europe.

The project in its early stages aims to transport and distribute natural gas to Jordan, Syria and Lebanon.
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the project can extend to allow Iraq to gas producers and other presidents in the region to export natural theirs, to Europe or vice versa across networks and workshops and additional gas so formed “for the Arab gas network.”

Arab gas pipeline through Syria Consists of 36-inch pipeline along the 570 km from the Syrian-Jordanian borders to Kallass at the Syrian border of Turkey and consists of two parts, in addition to the pipeline, 24-inch length of 80 km stretching from Rayyan to the Syrian-Lebanese border.

the first part extends from Jordanian border to Rayyan gas station length of about 319.5 km and 36-inch diameter, while the second segment from Homs to class at the Syrian-Turkish border length of about 250 km.

Opening of South al-Kamsheh Plant will be carried out during the visit in addition to presenting technical overview about production area and visiting wells sites, afpc and meet with the stuff in al-Omer field, visiting Deir al-Zour Gas Plant , Deir al-Zour field , technicians training center in al-Taim field as well as Hayain Oil company and Hayain Gas Plant in Palmyra.

Abu-Kamal Oil Company is a joint venture was established between GPC and Russian Tat Naft Company based on Oil Exploration and Developing and Production Contract which was approved by Legislative Law 24 in 2005.

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President Bashar Assad underlined Thursday the importance of Syria’s gas resource and its investment to the best of ways.

Inaugurating Ebla Gas Plant in al-Freqlus, Homs, 162 kilometers from Damascus, President Assad called for the expanding of gas exploration, produce, and continued use of international up-to-date technologies to contribute to the execution of huge developmental projects, as to keep pace with Syria’s ongoing development and growth process.

Further, President Assad asserted the importance of follow-up and execution of Arab, regional and international cooperation projects in the field of gas import, export, transport, and marketing.
The President toured the plant departments and was briefed on its mechanism of work and components.
The Plant of treating-gas-capacity stands at 2.8 million cubic meters per day, and its daily production capacity stands at 2.5 million cubic meters of clean gas.

 
President Assad was also briefed on gas projects in Syria, means of expanding gas usage, given its environment-friendly nature.

Furthermore, the President reviewed the phases of under-execution gas-treatment plants, ways of gas transport through the gas-network pipelines spreading all over Syria, and the measures planned to be taken by the Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources as to supply Syria’s Industrial Zones with gas to substitute fuel, and to meet the demands of electricity generation stations.

 
President Assad was received upon his arrival at the plant by Prime Minister Mohamad Naji Otri, Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resource Sufian Allaw, Homs Governor Mohamad Iyad Ghazal, and by the ambassador of Canada to Damascus Minister of Oil Associates, Dr. Hassan Zeinab, Abdou Husam al-Din and Ali Abbas, Director-General Petroleum Corporation and Omar Al Hamad, Director General of the Syrian Petroleum Company, Eng. Hussein Wadaa General Manager of Syrian Gas Company and Ali Alderboli Chairman of the joint management of the plant and Jon Ferrier General Manager of Petro-Canada in Syria, Amer Kuzbari deputy general manager of Petro-Canada and the Canadian ambassador in Damascus.

Ebla Gas Plant was conducted by Petro-Canada Company , and Petrofac in the governorate of Homs to the east of al-Freqlus area about 10 km and consists of a gathering Gas station in the field of al-Shaer and a pipeline to transport raw gas along the 77 km, linking al-Shaer field and al-Freqlus Gas Plant with a line to export gas from the plant along the 3.2 km, to the national grid. and digging / 10 / wells of which 6 wells to produce gas, and three wells to produce oil, wells and one water disposal class in addition to the treatment plant gas with capacity 2,8 million m 3 of raw gas per day and produces about 120 tons of cooking gas and about 2500 barrels of condensate in addition to 2,5 million m 3 of clean gas.

Oil Minister: Ebla Gas Plant was completed in a standard period of time prior to the schedule specified in five months and employs some 300 engineers and technicians

Electricity sector consumes 80 percent of the quantity mentioned and other sectors consume the remaining quantity, Allaw said .

The minister pointed out that the Ebla gas plant, which was inaugurated today completed a period of record time before the schedule specified in five months and the plant employs about 300 engineers and technicians and workers, pointing out that the lab is a joint venture with Petro-Canada, which hired investment to develop gas fields in the region of the poet and the compilation of this gas and transferred at a distance of 80 km from the station to al-Shaer Ebla Gas Plant.

Allaw stressed that Oil Ministry has prepared a strategic plan for gas production focused on the management of reservoirs of the current fields according to the latest global technology and raise the cost-effective as possible and appropriate investment in economic gas facilities, product and investment plants and existing plants currently possible to design them by linking sources of additional or improving the outcome of the fields linked and further develop the discovered fields and linked by a factor of the new gas.

Abbas: There are positive indicators and data promises new discoveries will supply our system of gas in the future

For his part, Ali Abbas, recently important projects had been established to support economy and secure sources of clean fuel for electricity production in Syria, where two gas projects are currently implemented, one plant / Hayan / which will be completed at the end of this year, with 4 million cubic meters of gas per day and the second gas plant north central region, which is implemented by the Syrian Gas Company in collaboration with Russian Stroytransgas with 3 million cubic meters per day is expected to be completed in the second half of 2011 and the end of these two projects we have completed our infrastructure in Syria in the field of collecting, processing and exporting natural gas to consumers in the inside Syria.

And on the future needs of the gas in Syria, Abbas said that the oil ministry had prepared a study of production and demand for gas has shown the presence of an increase in the need for gas in the future, which shows that the planned production will not be enough for domestic consumption, therefore, seek to link the strategic neighboring countries in order to secure outlets for gas supply to Syria where he was to relate the south with Egypt and Jordan through the establishment of Arab gas pipeline is being linked with Turkey to import gas from Azerbaijan and Iran after the completion of talks with them in addition to study the possibility of linking the invading Iraq with the Arab gas pipeline through the establishment of a gas pipeline linking gas networks between Syria and Iraq, note that there are positive indicators and data promises new discoveries our system of gas supply in the future.

Wadaa: increased gas production will lead to reduced reliance on fuel material that is imported from abroad in foreign currencies

For his part, the Eng. Wadaa stressed on the importance of the Ebla gas project, and gas processing plants that were being implemented come from the economic revenues which achieved through investment in gas producing fields, which leads to the provision of large quantities of gas ready for use, thus reducing the dependence on fuel material that is imported from abroad in foreign currencies and world prices, while being sold at a subsidized price to consumers.

Jon Ferrier: Petro-Canada has invested over two and a half years more than a billion dollars to develop the field, al-Shaer and al-Sharefa

In his turn, Lyon Feriz explained that the company has invested over two and a half years more than a billion dollars to develop the field al-Shaer and al-Sharefa, been dug 10 wells, gas and 3 oil wells and wells for water disposal station and collect gas in al-Shaer field and line to transport gas from that field to al-Frukles plant gas .He pointed out that Petro-Canada is interested in expanding its activities in Syria and to participate in the announcement by the Ministry of Oil for areas to exploration and because of the cooperation shown by the Ministry and the General Organization for Petroleum and favorable investment climate and encouraging in Syria.

Kuzbari: Petro-Canada has trained 90 engineers and technicians in Syria from the Syrian Gas Company to run the lab

For his part, Amer Kuzbari said that the company has trained 90 engineers and technicians from the Syrian Gas Company, which are involved in the operation of the plant, in addition to the training of 9 Syrians engineers in the centers of the company in Canada for 11 months to work as supervisors of operations productivity in the project rather than foreign experts.

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The project contains :

1- digging 10 wells( 6 wells for gas production,3 for oil and one for water.

2- Gas Mixing station in al-Shaer field and gas line with 77 km length link al-Shaer field with gas plant in al-Freqles with exporting line from gas plant by3.2 km to the national net.

3- Gas treating plant near of al- Freqles with 2.8 million cubic meter of crude gas a day . and production of 120 tons of house gas and 2500 barrel of condensates in addition to 2.5 million cubic meter of clean gas.

90 Syrian Engineers and technicians of Syrian gas Company trained 9 of them had their training in Petro – Canada in Canada for 11 months to work as supervisors on Production operations of the Project instead of foreign experts.

Petro- Canada as well as is carrying out Exploration and Production Operations in Block 2 with 6700 km2 based on 4/2004 contract .

Syria’s production of gas is about 25 million cubic meter a day 18-19 million cubic of it is a clean gas .. Syria import 2.5 million cubic meter a day from Egypt .

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Project supervisors expect the Hayan gas plant to be put into service before the contract’s deadline, which is the first quarter of 2011. They say the plant will begin operation in December 2010, producing around 2.7 million cubic meters of clean gas, 5000 barrels of natural gas condensate, and 180,000 tons of cooking gas.

Allaw noted that Syria has considerable reserves of natural gas, with the amount of gas that can be produced estimated at 285 billion cubic meters, adding that this amount can increase with new discoveries.

He also said that the Ministry of Petroleum’s plan calls for producing 160 billion cubic meters of natural gas from 2009 to 2025.

Hayan Petroleum Company is a joint operating company established by the General Petroleum Establishment and the Croatian petroleum company INA. The company began drilling and production in 2005.

Minister Allaw also visited a number of oil wells and the Euphrates Petroleum and Gas Technical Institute near the city of Deir Ezzor, and a station for transporting crude oil east of the city of Homs.

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Allaw said during a field tour to the laboratory gas South-Central region of Ebla that the increased gas production, reduce import of fuel is backed by the government , which would support the national economy through the provision of large amounts of foreign exchange as well as reduce pollution from burning fuel as the gas friend of the environment, noting that Syria has large reserves of gas estimated recoverable of which about 284 billion cubic meters could increase with new discoveries.

Minister of oil indicated to some gas discoveries that promise to increase production, reaching the Syrian Oil Company to the discovery of gas in the initial area of Deir Atieh in addition to the previous discovery in Saddad region which is a positive indicator of gas-producing I al-Qalamoun regions in Syria.

The Minister said that Syria’s oil production stable around 380 thousand barrels per day, expressed his hope that production will increase in coming years due to the presence of indicators and the positive data by the SPC and companies operating in Syria, in addition to achievement tests conducted by some companies, such as APR, Petro- Canada and Tat naft for initial discoveries.

 
The Minister discussed during his trip to the gas plant south of the central region, which opened last month workflow and performance in the lab, stressing that the lab has produced since the beginning of this month until the eighteenth of more than 120 million cubic meters of clean gas and about 70 thousand barrels of oil and condensate and more than 350 tons of cooking gas, pointing out that the lab work within the design capacity for the production of / 7 / million cubic meters per day from / 6.6 / million cubic meters of clean gas.

The Minister reviewed with Ebla Gas Plant staff , the work that was done in cooperation with Petro-Canada stages of completion of the plant and heard of Amer Kuzbari Deputy Director-General about the stages of work, adding that gas supply will be of al-Shaer the field to the lab from the tenth of next March to begin operations in preparation and experimentation to start pumping gas to the Syrian network to transport gas in next May, the plant will produce about / 2.5 / million cubic meters of gas per day, about 2500 barrels of oil and 100 tons of cooking gas.

For his part, Yun Fryer, General Manager of Petro-Canada in Syria said that the lab will be completed two months ahead of schedule and that his company has trained a number of engineers working in the Syrian Gas Company in Canada in addition to the rehabilitation of a number of other of them in the training center in Homs in the field of technical management and computer and English to be able to run the plant after completion, pointing out that his company is investing about one billion dollars in Syria through the development of fields of al-Shaer and al-Sharifa gas plant and the establishment of Ebla.

 
Hussein Waddaa Director-General of the Syrian Gas Company indicated to the importance of gas projects implemented by the company comes from the economic return achieved by investment through the gas fields in the south central region which leads to the provision of large quantities of gas ready for use, thus contributing to reduce dependence on fuel material which are imported from abroad.

 
He noted that the Ministry of Oil supply electric power plants up to / 18 / million cubic meters per day, a quantity equivalent to more than / 18 / tons of fuel worth about $ 9 million every day is a considerable saving on the national economy as well as ease of delivery of gas stations electric power distributed all over Syria through the Syrian network to transport gas.

Meetings and tours were attended by Ali Abbas, Director GPC and Eng.Ali Alderboli GM Gas plant of south of the central region.

 
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Technical and engineering Studies were prepared for the two parts of Aleppo /Kallas and Aleppo- al-Froqles/ by an International consultant team by Earth Link and Advanced Resources Development (ELARD)to study the the Environmental affect of installing and operating the two parts of the Arab Gas Pipeline. The company finished its job in its two phases in Syria.

The first part : is 62 KM long between Aleppo and Kallas and will allow the gas exporting from Syria using the existed pipe with 24 inch between Aleppo and Palmyra.
The Second part of the line is 185 KM , will link the Arab gas Pipeline in Aleppo with the main center in SGC in al-Rayan.

Earth Link and Advanced Resources Development (ELARD)to study the the Environmental affect in the first part in Aleppo through comprehensive survey for the track and collecting samples of water and soil in addition to making social , economic and archeological survey in the area.

The second study came in more details because it pass three provinces Homs Hama and Aleppo.
The reports of affect are put based on the environmental nature of the track in each province.

The stages contained discussion of the special parts with the participation of people and Economic activities in the villages that passed by the Arab Gas pipe line.

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