VOL. XLVII

No 15

12-April-2004

North American Oil Companies Push Ahead With Syria Operations Despite US Sanctions Threat

In a wide-ranging interview in Vienna with Walid Khadduri and Bill Farren-Price of MEES, Syrian Oil Minister Ibrahim Haddad said that North American oil companies were pressing ahead with their Syrian operations and were undertaking advanced negotiations for new projects, despite the unilateral US sanctions outlined in the Syria Accountability Act, which came into effect in...