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Article: SYRIA - The Geology.
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- APS Review Oil Market Trends
- Article date:
- March 25, 2002
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Syria has a 183-km Mediterranean coastline in the north, with no petroleum discovery made offshore. But this may contain gas in the Plio-Pleistocene horizon, judging by major gas discoveries made in the south-east of the Mediterranean - off Egypt, the Gaza Strip and Israel. There is a theory, yet to be proven, that the gas-rich Plio-Pleistocene and Paleozoic formations may extend from Egypt's 180-km deep offshore economic zone up to the Aegean Sea off Turkey and Greece including areas off Lebanon and Cyprus.
Now there are talks between the governments of Cyprus, Egypt, Greece Lebanon, Syria and Turkey on possible co-operation in exploring these offshore areas. ...
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