VOL. XXXIV

NO. 11

17-DECEMBER-1990

Syria

Marathon Strikes Oil with Ash Shaer-5 Well

Marathon Petroleum has discovered oil with its Ash Shaer-5 well in thePalmyra permit about 240 kms. northeast of Damascus. The well flowed at a rateof 2,980 b/d of 39 API, low-sulfur crude. Marathon's discoveries in the permithave so far been mostly gas, and the company has been engaged in a program aimedat determining if the gas reserves will be adequate to provide some 6mn cu.ms./day (212mn cu. ft./day) of gas...