VOL. XXXIX

No. 38

17-June-1996

SYRIA

Shell/Deminex Group Relinquishes Al-Jazira Permit

The Shell/Deminex group in December 1995 relinquished the al-Jazira permit located immediately north of the group's Ash Sham and Dair al-Zur producing concessions in eastern Syria, according to Deminex's 1995 Annual Report. The report states that the exploration well drilled in the contract area found the reservoir objective to be water bearing. The well was plugged and the permit was subsequently...