Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. LIII

No 12

22-March-2010

SYRIA

Syria Should Become Regional Energy Hub

The National Energy Conference held in Damascus on 13-14 March has recommended that Syria should take advantage of its strategic geographical location by becoming a hub for the transport and transit of hydrocarbon-based energy and for renewable sources of electricity among the Arab and regional countries around it. The conference called for the rationalization of energy consumption domestically...