Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. XLIX

No 5

30-January-2006

SYRIA

Syria Receives 23 Bids For Oil And Gas ExplorationSyrias Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Ibrahim Haddad announced on 22 January that Damascus had received 23 bids for oil and gas exploration from 13 foreign companies for nine onshore blocks opened for bidding in April 2005. (Last December Syria announced that it had received 22 bids from 14 companies MEES, 2/9 January.) The bidding closed on 20 December 2005 following a...