Prime Minister Adel Safar on Wednesday discussed with Zoltan Aldott, Head of the Management Board of Croatian INA company for Oil, the cooperation between the company and the Ministry of Oil and Mineral Resources and means of developing them in the field of oil and gas production and exploration in Syria.

Talks during the meeting dealt with the situation of the projects carried out by the company, and discussed cooperation in the field of exploration in the Syrian sea waters.

Safar stressed the government’s support to the company to carry out and develop its projects.

For his part, Aldott expressed satisfaction over the support, stressing his company’s willingness to expand its exploration works in Syria.

It is worth mentioning that the INA Corporation conducts exploratory drilling and exploration from the date of 06.26.2004 has been extended for the first time for 24 months from 10/8/2008.

INA Corporation has another investment in Syria in partnership with the General Petroleum Corporation by the company Hayan implementing the development processes in the production of oil and gas fields explored by the INA Corporation in the contract area Hayyan (fields Ghar – Palmyra – al-Muher – Jazal – al-Mustadira – Mzaror) also follows in the exploration contract Hayyan area to the west of Palmyra, and according to the “Contractor’s program and budget for exploration and approved by the GPC.

Hayan Petroleum company establishing a laboratory gas Hayan near Palmyra to deal with about 4 million cubic meters of gas per day and is expected to be completed laboratory before the first quarter of 2011 and will begin operations in December of this year, where will result in the plant about 7.3 million cubic meters of clean gas and 5000 barrels of condensate and 180 tons of cooking gas.

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