VOL. XXXV

NO. 16

20-JANUARY-1992

Syria

Syrian Production Nearing 500,000 b/d

MEES learns that the output of light crude oil from al-Furat PetroleumCompany's (FPC's) Dair al-Zur and Ash Sham concessions in northeast Syria stoodat 332,600 b/d in early January, up 10.46% from the output figure of 301,100 b/din January 1991 (see overleaf for table of production and map of oilfields). FPCis owned 50% by the state-owned Syrian Petroleum Company (SPC), 15.625% byPecten (US Shell), 15.625% by Syria Shell...