VOL. XXXIV

NO. 17

28-JANUARY-1991

Syria

Terms of Occidental's Al-Nabk Concession Agreement

The terms of the oil and gas production-sharing concession agreementconcluded between Syria and Damascus Petroleum Company (DPC), a wholly-ownedsubsidiary of Occidental Petroleum Corporation, has become available to MEES.The agreement, signed last October and published in the Syrian Official Gazettetwo months later, is for the 1.7mn acre (6,880-sq. km.) al-Nabk block insouthwestern Syria (see map overleaf)....