VOL. XXXII

NO. 6

14-NOVEMBER-1988

SYRIA

Occidental Starts Exploration Operations

The Damascus Petroleum Company (a wholly-owned subsidiary of OccidentalInternational Exploration and Production Company) will begin explorationoperations this month with a 2,200-km. seismic program in the Bosra concessionin southern Syria near the border with Jordan. Exploration drilling is expectedto start in the second half of 1989. The 11,525sq. km. Bosra concession wasawarded last March by the Syrian Government to...