Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. LII

No 49

7-Dec-2009

syria

Tatneft Starts Development Of Block 27 Following Commercial Discovery

Russian oil company Tatneft announced on 1 December that it had made a commercial discovery at the South Kishma field on Block 27 and that the Syrian Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Sufian 'Alaw has approved the coordinates for development drilling in a letter dated 22 November. Tatneft said that South Kishma will be the first field to be...