Country Report
Syria upstream summary
*Please note that this report only includes an Excel data file if this is indicated in "What's included" below
Report summary
Syria is a mature oil producer that has been devastated by more than a decade of civil war. Before the conflict, domestic production averaged roughly 380,000 b/d of oil and 900 mmcfd of gas, making Syria the only significant crude oil producer in the Mediterranean region. As the security situation deteriorated in 2011, oil production fell by about 80% and gas production by 50%. By 2021, the government estimated that national oil output had dropped to around 80,000 b/d, while gas production ...
Table of contents
- Executive summary
- Key facts
- Location maps
- Key companies
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Geology
- Introduction
- Regional tectonic framework
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Tectonic Provinces
- Euphrates Graben system
- Northeast Syria (Sinjar sub-basin)
- Zagros fold belt
- Palmyride fold and thrust Belt
- Dead Sea fault system
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Petroleum plays
- Kurrachine and Mulussa formations
- Butmah formation
- Cherrife/Rutbah formation
- Massive Limestone and Shiranish formations
- Chilou and Jeribe formations
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Source rocks and petroleum type
- Source rock intervals
- Oil types
- Gas occurrences
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Exploration
- Licensing
- Historical licensing
- Licence awards 1990 - 2002
- Licence awards post-2002
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Drilling
- Drilling activity
- Reserves and resources
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Production
- Liquids
- Crude oil pricing
- Gas
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Infrastructure
- Introduction
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Oil infrastructure
- Central and Eastern Syria
- Northeastern Syria
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Refining
- Homs refinery
- Banias refinery
- Oil terminals
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Gas infrastructure
- Gas processing
- Omar gas plant
- Deir Ez Zor (DezGas) gas plant
- Central Palmyra gas plant
- South Palmyra gas plant
- Jebissa gas plant
- Suwaidiyah gas plant
- Ebla gas plant
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- Arab Gas Pipeline
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Policy and regulation
- Key legislation
- Regulatory body
- State oil company
- State participation
- Licensing
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Fiscal terms
- Overview
- Upstream
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Mid/Downstream
- Pipelines
- Gas utilisation
- State-owned terms
- Current fiscal terms
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Production Sharing Contracts
- NOC equity participation
- Bonuses, rentals and fees
- Other bonuses and fees
- Royalty and other production taxes
- PSC cost recovery
- Gas provisions
- Corporate (or Petroleum) income tax
Tables and charts
This report includes the following images and tables:
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Key facts: Table 1Country mapReserves and resources: Table 1
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Liquids and gas production and reservesGeological basin mapSyria open acreage mapProduction: Table 1Production: Table 2Liquids productionLiquid production by basinProduction: Table 3Production: Table 4
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What's included
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