SYRIA
 
Syrian Oil Output Slumps To 70,000 B/D
 
Syrian oil production has fallen sharply to 70,000 b/d from 380,000 b/d over two years ago as a result of sustained damage to the oil sector during the ongoing uprising and western sanctions on the export of oil, the Syrian Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Sulaiman ‘Abbas, told the BBC. Mr ‘Abbas explained that oil, albeit minor volumes, from producing wells is being stolen, refined in primitive...