Eng. Sufian Alao minister of oil and mineral resources said that some international companies want to buy Syrian petroleum Coke that will be produced by the new refineries .

French La varge company and Turkish Gurich company are of those companies and want to establish Cement Factory in Reqa province . these companies offered to put study on development of governmental cement factories and using coke in the new refinery .
These matters were discussed during the Refinery commission meeting which was recently held in the ministry of oil and mineral resources that discussed the new refineries.

. He added: that the Bahraini company “Alba would also like to sign the Convention for the purchase of long-term quantity of 300 thousand tons of coal sulfur content higher than 7% or 500 thousand tons annually sulphur content of less than 7%.
He pointed out that in light of rising global energy prices are pregnant it is expected that there is no problem in the use and marketing of high-sulphur coke, stressing that take interest in studies into the environmental group first class.