SYRIA

Pecten's Tayyim Discovery Now Producing 20,000 B/D 

MEES learns that the new Pecten (US Shell) discovery at Tayyim, some 12 kms. south of Dair al-Zur, is now producing at a rate of 20,000 b/d. The oil is being temporarily trucked a distance of about 100 kas. to al-Risafah from where it is pumped to the Homs refinery via Syria's Karachuk/Suwaidiyya-Homs/Banias crude oil pipeline. In the meantime Pecten is preparing permanent outlet facilities for the field involving the...