The Syrian Petroleum Company (SPC)

Activities of the Syrian Petroleum

Company (S.P.C)

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      Oil Prospecting  activities were carried out in Syria by foreign companies only until 1958 when the legislation decree no . 167 was issued by virtue of which the General commission for petroleum affairs was established , the legislator granted the commission the authority to carry out exploration and production activities in addition to other tasks ( refining , transporting , and purchasing of oil derivatives ) .

In 1964 the legislation decree no . 133 was issued , it restricted the granted licenses for exploration and investment to the government only .

In 1974 the legislation decree no . 9 was issued by virtue of which the Syrian Petroleum Company

( S. p . c ) was established , more over other specialized companies were established and linked to Ministry of Petroleum and mineral resources .

As a result of the development of the legislation forms related to the exploration and production activities the legislation decree no . of 1975 was issued , it granted the permission to the international oil companies to explore and invest in the oil and gas sector according to production sharing contracts between the Syrian government , SPC and the contactors .

    S.P.C occupies the most important economic position in Syria; financially on the one hand, where its revenues are more than 50% of the national income, and socially on the other hand, as S.P.C manpower is about 16000 distributed among its different directorates according to the organizational structure Accommodation services and full medical care are provided to all personnel and their families .

     S.P.C is responsible for all activity related to oil and gas industry including exploration activities, oil and gas production as all exploration and drilling works, reservoir, production, gathering and development studies

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Exploration works :
Since its establishment, S.P.C participated and supervised in preparing and completing "The geological map of Syria" in cooperation with the Soviet Union. S.P.C also executed gravity and magnetic surveys over the whole area of Syria. Such works assisted in directing the seismic surveys at different densities according to levels of petroleum potentialities, where such densities ranged between 0.3-2.5 K.M/sq. K.M the following results were achieved through such works:

A: drawing the subsurface geometry of the lithostratigraphic column thickness through out the country .

B: defining the structural feature of the crystalline basement.  

C: Delineating the boundaries of various tectonic units, and correlating results with the geochemical, geological works  and defining  their petroleum potentials .

D: Establishing the Seismo- geological sections, which assisted in clarifying the morphology of the different subsurface structures, and under standing the geological development history of Syria.

E:  Discovering a large number of leads and prospects..

F: Defining source, reservoir and seal rocks, and their distribution through the deferent tectonic units. 

Also defining the migration path of oil and gas from the source toward

Rocks in most tectonic units.

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A: S.P.C executed exploration, production and development drilling in all parts of Syria.

 As commercial oil and gas was discovered in Middle East and north east of the Syria, drilling activities were concentrated in these regions.

B: Exploratory drilling was carried out in 343 structures till July 2003, out of which S.P.C had executed 192 structure, while the rest were executed by           the service contracts companies, supervised by S.P.C.

C.Current drilled structures constitute 39% of the total discovered  structures in Syria this fact induced S.P.C  to open some block for exploratory                works by international oil companies  in order to accelerate the work and to know Syria's potentialities as soon as possible .

D.Number of drilled wells in Syria is 2900(Appraisal, exploratory and development wells).

E: The existence of hydrocarbon accumulations, with in Paleozoic, Triassic, cretaceous, paleogene and Neogene reservoirs which are distributed at               different part of Syria, were proven.

F : Variability in the distribution of the hydrocarbon bearing and producing reservoirs is emphasized at the different basins, tectonic units and fields such reservoirs are grading from two collective horizons in the Palmayride area to eleven collective horizons in the Euphrates depression.

  Primary oil production in Syria started in 1967 while the actual production started in 1968 , after the erect of the first pumping station in Tal Addas north – east of Syria  , where crude oil was pumped through the pipeline to Tartous  terminal across Homs refinery in may 1968 .

Oil Production reached 1.13 Million M³/year .

Oil production has increased as a result of developing of the seismic survey and exploration drilling to riach 11 Million M³/year in 1976 .

Later some service contract companies started working in Syria and fulfilled commercial discoveries the actual production reached 30 Million M³/year in 2002  in addition some discovered gas fields were put into  production , and gas production reached 6 Billion M³/year in 2002

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 Geographically oil and gas are distributed among six acreages :

         1.    The Mesopotamian .

         2.    south Sinjar .

         3.    Deir Ezzor (The Euphrates).

         4.    Middle palmyride .

         5.    North   palmyride .

         6.    Aleppo plateau .

    In order to facilitate the transportation of oil and gas, SPC executed a number of pipeline projects that linked the producing fields with the main oil and  gas transporting pipelines .

Due to the expansion of S.P.C scope of work including implementing of new technology , new directory was established in 1992 , in order to train the different levels of S.P.C tech , staff , the task of this directory was put in line with grate technology development took place recently .
The national Trainees have to attend ( English language , Computer ) Training courses as well as internal and external technical courses through contracts with specialized institutes , in addition to the existing Training centers in the oil fields for workers and technicians .

Contact Us

Damascus, Al-Mutanabbi St.

P.O.Box: 2849.

Tel:  963 11 2227007 / 2314850

Fax: 963 11 2225648 / 2225643

E-mail: spccom2Dir@net.sy

E-mail: spc@spc-sy.com