SYRIA

Output of Light Crude Oil by FPC May Rise to 100,000 B/D by 1988 

The output of light crude oil by al-Furat Petroleum Company (FPC) from the Dair al-Zur area in northeast Syria may rise to about 100,000 b/d by 1988, according to Syrian Deputy Oil Minister Nadir al-Nabulsi. He said that the oil find at Tayyim 12 kms. south of Dair alZur, Syria's first commercial discovery of light (36.5° API), low-sulfur (less than 1%) crude, encouraged further exploration which led to...