VOL. XXXVII

NO. 46

15-AUGUST-1994

General

Shell's 1993 Middle East Operations

The Shell Review for 1993 provides the following information on thecompany's operations in five countries of the Middle East:

In Syria, the Shell group (Pecten and Syria Shell) has a 62.5% interest inthe production-sharing contract in the Dair al-Zur area and a 67% interest inthe neighboring Ash Sham area in eastern Syria (with the rest held by Deminex ofGermany). Since 1985, some 30 fields have been discovered and...