SYRIA
 
Syria Estimates Oil Industry Losses At $8.1Bn
 
Between the beginning of the uprising in March 2011 and the end of February this year the Syrian petroleum sector has sustained a loss in excess of S£73bn ($1.04bn, using an average exchange rate of $1=S£70 for the period in question) from the destruction of infrastructure and lost quantities of oil and gas from spillage, a source at the Syrian Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources has said,...