VOL. XXXV

NO. 40

6-JULY-1992

Syria

SPC Discovers Oil in Central Syria

MEES hears that the state-owned Syrian Petroleum Company (SPC) has made anoil find at Tuwaina, northeast of Marathon/Arco's Palmyra concession, in centralSyria. The discovery well, completed in early June, reportedly tested at a rateof over 2,000 b/d of around 30 API crude from the Jurassic. The find isparticularly interesting because SPC's current production of about 150,000 b/dcomes mainly from the Suwaidiyah-Karachuk area in...