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Article: SYRIA - Local Consumption.
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- APS Review Downstream Trends
- Article date:
- February 28, 2000
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Despite the shift to natural gas since the 1980s, Syria's oil consumption averages about 200,000 b/d. Syria's total energy consumption averages more than 300,000 b/d of oil equivalent, with natural gas accounting for almost one third. Hydro-power accounts for less than 7% of total consumption, because of a fall in water levels at the Euphrates River.
Government efforts to limit oil consumption have met with limited success. Reasons for this range from the rapid growth of population to state subsidies that keep oil prices down to levels which the people can afford.
Much of the local demand for refined oil products is met by the refineries at Homs and ...