Prime Minister Mohammad Naji Otri on Tuesday chaired a meeting to discuss the Ministry of Petroleum’s plan for exploration and drilling for oil and gas at sea.

The meeting discussed the results of the seismic surveys that were made in the specified areas in the Syrian regional waters and the necessary technical and legal procedures for announcing these areas and investing in them.

Eng. Sufian Allaw Minister of Oil and Mineral Resources, said at a news conference last April that it will be announced on operation of exploration in the sea on the basis of a previous study, some surveys carried out in Syrian waters, where they were to identify four sites a total area amounted to 5000 km 2, the ministry may announced by the former did not make only one company because of certain global conditions witnessed by the years of dramatic changes in oil prices suddenly rise up and Now, after the stability of prices, the ministry would announce it.

The modern American studies recently confirmed the discovery of treasure, a huge oil and gas in the basin of the Mediterranean is estimated reserves to 122 trillion cubic feet of natural gas and 107 billion barrels of oil.

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