VOL. XL

No. 32

11-August-1997

SYRIA

Terms Of Elf Group's Tishrin Concession Agreement

The terms of the oil exploration and production sharing concession agreement concludedlast January by Syria with a consortium headed by Elf Hydrocarbures Syrie, a subsidiary ofFrance's Elf Aquitaine, for the 4,201-sq. km. Tishrin block in eastern Syria (see mapoverleaf) has now been gazetted. The area excludes five plots - Tishrin, Ghouna/Ghubaia,Salihiya, Jbeisa and Marqada - where the state-owned Syrian...