Syria taps Russian firms to develop offshore oil deposits in Mediterranean

Darrin Zammit Lupi

Syria’s Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Ali Ghanem told Sputnik news agency that two agreements have been signed with Russian companies to develop two deposits in the country’s territorial waters.

“In fact, there is a company that has signed a previous contract on the matter of one of the maritime blocks’ exploration, Block 2, and there is also another agreement with a Russian company for Block 1,” the minister said.

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