special report issued by OPEC proven oil reserves in Syria amounted to about 4.2 billion barrels of oil, depending on the available data for 2007.

The report said that these precautions are clearly evolved from the year 2006, the figure of proven reserves is about 3 billion barrels, with the number in 2005 was in 2004 and 2003 about 3.2 billion barrels.

 
Syria is superior to these reserves of OAPEC by Egypt’s proven reserves amounted to about 3.9 billion barrels and 0.4 billion barrels of Tunisia and Bahrain 0.1 billion barrels, and make it 7 Arab countries belonging to the OPEC countries … and Syria are proven reserves of about 0.63% of the reserves of OAPEC and about 0.62% of the share of all the Arab countries ..

 
On the other hand, the report pointed out that Syria’s gas reserves have declined during the past years, up to about 290 billion cubic meters in 2007, with the number estimated in 2006 with the reserves in 2005, an estimated 310 billion cubic meters and 371 billion cubic meters in 2004, as well as in the year 2003, according to 2007 the share of OPEC countries Syria reach 0.54% and 0.53% of the share of Arab States.