VOL.XXXVI

NO.44

2-AUGUST-1993

SYRIA/EGYPT

Shell's 1992 Operations In Syria and Egypt

Commenting on the company'soperations in Syria,the Shell

Review

for 1992 states thatsince 1985 some 30 fields have been discovered and put into production in the Dairal-Zur

andAshShampermitsin eastern Syria -five of them in 1992 when production reached 400,000 b/d byyear-end.The

fieldsareoperatedby Al-Furat Petroleum Company (AFPC) which is jointly owned by the state-owned SyrianPetroleum

Company(SPC)andthe...