VOL. XLV

No 32

12-August-2002

SYRIA

INA Makes Second Gas Discovery In Palmyra

Syrian Oil Minister Ibrahim Haddad announced on 4 August that the Croatiancompany INA Industries Nafta had made a second gasdiscovery in the Palmyra region,adding that the capacity of the new well was around 250,000 cu ms/day. Planscall for the drilling of two more exploratory wells. The Syrian PetroleumCompany (SPC) awarded INA a production-sharing agreement in the first half of1998 for the 4,900sq km Hayan acreage in...